The Weak Are Woke

This is a rough one. One of the worst "Woke" posts yet.

Sorry. But this one got dark.

It's not me, you understand.

This is what the left is doing.

But let's start of light, stupid, and artistically vapid.

Has-been Bruce Springsteen and Never-was Chris Robinson of the Black Crows -- yes, THE Black Crows, the band with one lame "hit" to its credit -- won't shut up about their insipid leftwing politics and fans (the Black Crows have fans? Seriously?) are sick of it.

The Black Crowes' frontman Chris Robinson and rock icon Bruce Springsteen recently faced backlash over their political comments, which PR experts say reflect a growing frustration among Americans who feel musicians have become more interested in lecturing fans than entertaining them.
Robinson sparked controversy when he allegedly criticized fans chanting "USA" at a Florida concert and questioned what Americans had to be "so proud of right now," prompting some audience members to boo and walk out of the show, according to TMZ.
Meanwhile, some fans recently labeled Springsteen a "traitor" after he criticized the current state of America during a concert in April. Springsteen told the crowd that America had become seen by "many" as a "reckless, unpredictable, predatory rogue nation" under President Donald Trump's administration.
Since kicking off his Land of Hope and Dreams Tour, the singer has repeatedly unleashed blistering attacks on Trump during his shows, blasting the administration as "corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless and treasonous."
Doug Eldridge, founder of Achilles PR, told Fox News Digital that the response to Robinson and Springsteen's remarks signals a broader sentiment among Americans.
"At this point, it's fatigue," Eldridge said.

"Much like compounding interest, it's not a linear calculation; it's accumulation," he continued. "For the last decade, fans (read: average Americans) have been lectured, lied to, gaslit, and shamed, if they didn't conform to the new standard du jour."
"Worst of all, if you didn't buy into the 'new normal' you were castigated with an -ist or -ism as being the reason for your non-compliance," he added. "At a certain point, Americans had enough -- the same way they vote with their feet in elections, they vote with their dollars in the free market; especially for non-essential items like entertainment."
According to experts, fans aren't necessarily objecting to artists having political opinions, rather they are taking issue with what they perceive as criticism of their own beliefs.
"Most Americans don't mind that you have a different view; what they resent is being lectured and chastised for having an opposing view from the very act they paid good money to see," Eldridge said. "For Springsteen, the incessant criticism of Trump seems paradoxical, given his highest grossing album of all-time, was the iconic 'Born in the USA.'"

My no-longer guilty secret: Although I tried to like Bruce Springsteen because a confederacy of dunces told me I should, and I guess I do like (just like) a few songs, including "Rosalita" and "10th Avenue Freeze-Out," I always thought Springsteen was a, how do I put this, corny low-IQ posturing imbecile who was simultaneously bemoaning the low state of the "common man" while holding himself superior to the "common man" and who can't, what's the word?, sing and can barely play guitar.

Yes he was born a working-class kid -- a working-class kid who hates all other working-class kids, and who hates that the upper class kids looked down on him, but always longed to join the upper class kids so he could look down on the other working class kids.

He's a thickwitted New Jersey trash yokel that stupid rock critics, always on the lookout for the next Hero Philosopher Poet Guru Who Will Be Savior to the World -- of which rock has produced, so far, precisely zero -- gassed up into a sweaty-balled "genius."

Fuck him and his adulterous tax-dodging hypocrisy. He's a less-charismatic Carmine Ragusa from Laverne & Shirley.

I know this is a brave position to take on a blog where 99% of the readers don't like Springsteen and the 1% who do (which I guess would include garrett, and I don't mean that as an insult, but garrett generally has ecumenical tastes and likes most of the big rock acts), are just not going to feel that sticking up for this horse's ass, whose IQ is lower than Spinal Tap's, is worth it, especially at this late date, especially given his last 20 turgid regurgitive albums.

We are a long way since Born to Run and Born to Run is, get this, kinda mid.

And Born in the USA was always, always trash. And that's the one album most people think they like! It's so corny and basic-bitch and it's where he shows his condescension for "the common man" most nakedly. Every song is a sneer. A sneer from an imbecile.

Now "Fight Me," I say to people who are bored to even see the name "Bruce Springsteen." And seriously, fuck this dumb honky bitch.

Update: We finally found an answer to "which classic rock bands does garrett not like," and it's Blockhead Bruce Springsteen.

I heard some of you fretting "But don't we need more Cultural Enrichment? Europe seems to have so much of it now, and we have so much less than we used to!"

Don't worry, Massachusetts has come Cultural Enrichment for you.

So when I read the following headline, I figured it would be another such case: "Pitchfork Killing in Fall River: 28-Year-Old Charged in Bloody Double Homicide."
The savagery, the copious bloodshed, and the rustic weapon were the giveaways: We're dealing with yet another third-world savage, I figured.
The suspect's name seemed to confirm this diagnosis. Fall River Reporter posted the details on X:

28-year old Vitor Francisco Gomes is facing charges after two men were found dead on Aetna Street in Fall River, one with a pitchfork in the back of his head in Fall River, Massachusetts on Wednesday night.
FRPD responded to shots fired and found two men with severe injuries - one man's face covered in blood (likely gun shot wounds) the other with a metal pitchfork impaled into his head. The men were identified as 20-year old Pablo Henrique Rocha-Dasilva of Whitman and 19-year old Eduardo Cardosa DaSilva of Fall River.
Police found Vitor Francisco Gomes covered in blood one block away from the crime scene. After a short foot pursuit, they found him in possession of a bag that contained a firearm and ammunition. Gomes was taken into custody and charged with two counts of murder, unlawful carrying of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition.
So Gomes even had a gun on him, yet he still used hand tools to perpetrate his barbaric crimes. Fall River Reporter added gruesome details in a follow-up post:

According to DA Quinn, the murder scene was the worst he's every seen. One victim was shot in his car, dragged onto the street and beat with a brick. The second man was killed by a pitch fork to the back of the head. There are reports of an illegal boxing lead up to the violence.
These all sound like south-of-the-equator behaviors to me. Gomes' appearance at his arraignment reinforced my impression, as he required a Brazilian Portuguese interpreter.
Now, this being the Northeast, there is heavy societal and legal pressure to hide miscreants' immigration or citizenship status. I was unable to find any official mention of Gomes' origins, but you can do the math.

I don't do math and shame on you for even suggesting such a thing. But I take your point.

While that's bad, Europe is really putting on hall-of-fame performance:

Carney Must GO
The Mozartian
This post is true although I cannot confirm the police lying to the family. I can confirm the precedence of European and really all western governments actively obfuscating ethnicities and nationalities of criminal suspects in order to push ideological agendas.
Here's Claude AI's breakdown:

Institutional Concealment of Suspect Identity in Europe: The Tamar Boes Case and Its Ideological Context
The Tamar Boes Case: Confirmed Facts
On July 25, 2020, 14-year-old Tamar Boes from Marken, Netherlands, was found dead on the roadside of the Zeedijk between Monnickendam and Marken. She had left home after an argument with her parents. The following facts are confirmed by Dutch English-language reporting:
• The driver was identified as a 28-year-old resident of Germany who turned himself in through his Dutch defense attorney weeks after the incident. He drove a gray Mazda 3 and carried four occupants. The group had applied for asylum in Germany, were camping in the Netherlands, and left for Germany the morning after the crash. The vehicle was subsequently washed and put up for sale two months later.
• In 2021, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) imposed only a €1,500 fine, citing inattention to the road and finding insufficient evidence for manslaughter or criminal negligence charges.
• An accident expert concluded Tamar's body had been dragged to the roadside after the collision. Police officers who found her described an unusual scene: arms positioned upward, legs extended straight together, "as if she had been laid out." A drag mark was observed across the asphalt. Expert opinion remains disputed as to whether she was moved by a third party or survived the impact briefly and moved herself, though a forensic pathologist commissioned by the family's legal representative rejected the self-movement scenario.
• The family refused to accept the fine-only outcome and filed an Article 12 procedure to compel prosecution. A court ruled in 2022 that insufficient investigation had been conducted. After additional forensic work, the OM reopened the case. In March 2026, the driver -- now identified as Jamal T., age 33 -- was confirmed for prosecution on charges of causing a fatal accident and leaving the scene.
The specific claim that police explicitly told the family the driver was German and subsequently admitted he was Iraqi while citing a desire to avoid a "Wilders effect" is not confirmed by available Dutch English-language reporting.

That's a reference to anti-immigration Dutch politician Geert Wilders. The cop is admitting he lied to the family of the murdered girl about the nationality of her killers because he didn't want Geert Wilders to hear the truth and use the truth to boost his campaign.

Early reporting described the driver as "a 28-year-old resident of Germany," which may be the origin of the "German" characterization. The driver's precise country of origin is not stated in available English-language sources, and the deliberate deception narrative, while plausible given wider documented European patterns, remains unverified in this specific case.
The Broader Pattern: Institutional Concealment Across Europe
The Tamar Boes case reflects a documented pattern across Western European institutions of suppressing or obscuring the ethnic and national backgrounds of crime suspects. This is not an isolated or incidental practice. It is systemic, and its origins and mechanisms are traceable.

One day the people constantly lying to us and gaslighting us to keep us from "radicalizing" by knowing the truth are going to realize they're the ones who are doing the radicalizing.

Pro-Hamas "protesters" smashed a female cop in the spine with a sledgehammer to stop her from arresting their fellow "protesters." They had invaded the offices of a business they claim was an "arms supplier to Israel," which is 1, probably a lie, and 2, it also wouldn't matter if they were legally selling arms to Israel, you fucking degenerate terrorists.

Europa.com
@europa
May 5
🇬🇧 A jury at Woolwich Crown Court found 23-year-old Samuel Corner guilty of grievous bodily harm and criminal damage.
Corner, linked to Palestine Action, struck Police Sergeant Kate Evans with a sledgehammer from behind while she was attempting an arrest, fracturing her spine.
Bodycam footage was shown in court. Sentencing will take place at a later date.
Follow: @europa

A "Green Party Leader" and "London Assembly Member" says it's a shame this terrorist is being tried in court, and that trying him for attempting to paralyze or kill a woman with a sledgehammer is a an attack on "the right to protest."

I think some of us might one day exercise our right to protest you guys.

Do you understand that when the social compact finally dissolves in degenerate third-world terrorist acid, you weaklings will be the first in danger? Do you not understand that the social compact protects you pathetic crybaby bitchmade soyboys and Obese Karens with extreme emotional dysregulation most of all?

The apocalypse is hard. It's harder still if you're weak and stupid and mentally ill.

(Those videos are worth the watch, btw. They almost make up for the darkness of this post.)

How do you see the literal End of Civilization going? Do you think you're going to finally get to the gym and put on a quick 40 pounds of muscle you you can start cracking heads?

has been ruled by a judge to be not competent to stand trial so he gets a free murder. Or maybe a few free murders.

The repeat offender who stabbed Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska to death aboard a Charlotte, N.C., commuter train last year is incompetent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.

Presiding Federal Judge Kenneth Bell found that Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr did not understand the proceedings and would be unable to assist in his defense. Brown is up on federal charges of terrorist attacks and other violence against mass transportation systems, in large part because state and local courts kept releasing him, despite a long history of violence and mental illness.
He's also up on state charges of first-degree murder.
In the August attack, Brown appeared to select Zarutska almost at random, stabbing her repeatedly in the neck from behind before casually getting off at the next stop. Zarutska died almost immediately, apparently confused, and then with a look of tragic understanding on her face before she collapsed, unattended and uncomforted by any of the other passengers.
The murder, caught on video, shocked the world.
Brown had an outburst at today's hearing, according to Queen City News, shouting, "that he wants to ask the judge whether he reviewed the evaluation and said he wants to press charges against the FBI." He went on with more intelligible shouts, including something about having "material in my body."
...
The federal judge also ruled -- unlike so many previous North Carolina judges -- that Brown will not be released. Instead, "he will receive medication and treatment for up to four months in an effort to restore his competency."

And then what? Out on the street again?

See the article for his long, long list of serious crimes.

You know, the great majority of spur-of-the-moment killers have some kind of psychological problem, compromised executive function, or brain abnormality. Judges who aren't WOKE AF know this and do not insist on prisoners being able to get a 1200 on their SATs before being tried for SLICING OPEN THE THROATS OF RANDOM WOMEN ON SUBWAYS.

Highly fatiguing behavior. It must be my fault, somehow.

The most envious, Marxist, redistributive person in the world isn't the guy busting his hump to frame a house, or the guy grinding out DoorDash...it's the smug guy worth 7 or 8 figures staring at a trillionaire he considers socially beneath him. https://t.co/4NA4w0XCbS
— Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) (@antoniogm) June 12, 2026

This reminds me of annoying idiot femmy comic actor David Cross appearing on, if I recall, Adam Carolla. David Cross insisted that all of the "mega wealthy" pay something like 90% tax rates. Carolla (if my memory is correct) asked Cross how much he had made the previous year, and Cross said he didn't quite know, but it was somewhere between five and ten million.

Carolla asked if Cross wanted to pay 90% on his very high income, and he said no, the high tax rates would only apply to people with really really high incomes.

Some would say Cross had a really really high income, like myself. But no, he's protected as a blue-collar working man who just happens to have a mansion in LA.

A long time ago, some wag (and to be honest I don't quite know what "wag" means but I think I've seen it used in this way) observed that every media person in the world thinks that anyone making one single dollar more than what the top-earning star of the media world could possibly earn should have his money taken away by confiscatory income tax rates.

But note the limitation they put on it-- "obscene wealth which must be seized and distributed among the masses" only begins one dollar higher than the highest amount they can conceivably make themselves.

They always -- always -- configure the Estate Confiscation Scheme to exclude themselves.

Popehat -- Ken White, a deranged twitter-obsessive with emotional dysregulation and leftwing lawyer and in good standing with the bar in California, Pennsylvania, and DC -- calls for the assassination of a US citizen, Elon Musk.

Trans actress Elliot Page explains how she feels ‘healthy masculinity.’

“Healthy masculinity to me is…like leaning away from whenever there is some sort of impulse or expectation you’ve put on yourself to like shut down.” pic.twitter.com/4cuI1Bky1A
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) June 12, 2026

I need to hear more about healthy masculinity from transgenders. That's what I need most of all.

E X X ➠A L E R T S
@ExxAlerts

ALERT: Elderly New York City transgender serial killer who rode around with his girlfriends' severed leg in his electric wheelchair will serve the rest of their life behind bars.
88-year-old Harvey Marcelin was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of his girlfriend, Susan Leyden, 68.
Marcelin, who identifies as female, savagely chopped up Leydan with a reciprocating saw in his apartment in 2022.
Marcelin then took Leydon's remains and dumped her torso on a street corner and rolled over to a 99 Cent store with the severed leg in his wheelchair.
Marcelin has spent more than 50 years in prison, dating back to 1963, for killing 2 of his girlfriends before being let out on parole in 2019 after he promised to stay out of trouble.

Pincher Martin
@PincherMartin8
Think of this.
He murders his girlfriend in 1963. He is tried, convicted and sentenced to life with a chance for parole after the jury deadlocks on the death penalty. He spends 21 years in prison and gets out in 1984.
The year after his release he meets a new girl who is a drug addict and prostitute. They become roommates. He stabs her within the year and dismembers her corpse while high on crack cocaine. He admits to the murder, but claims it was in self-defense. For some odd reason, the charges are downgraded to manslaughter even though the autopsy results found 33 stab wounds. Only 12 years are added to his revoked life sentence. He applies for parole 15 times over the next 34 years, but is denied until 2019 when he is released due to his advanced age of 81 years.
He quickly finds another roommate, a 68-year-old lesbian woman. Less than three years later, he murders this roommate and (again) dismembers her corpse. He pleads not guilty, claiming another female associate did it. This case finally makes it to trial in 2026 - a full four years after the murder.
Think of the waste. The two unnecessary deaths, the unnecessary trials, the wasted prison space - all for a guy who should've been put to death sixty years ago after his first murder. And now we are having to waste space again in a prison for some 88-year-old serial killer psycho. It's just absurd.

Think of this.

He murders his girlfriend in 1963. He is tried, convicted and sentenced to life with a chance for parole after the jury deadlocks on the death penalty. He spends 21 years in prison and gets out in 1984.

The year after his release he meets a new girl who is a… https://t.co/t3Rdf6RO8U pic.twitter.com/fD8q0NDpCP
— Pincher Martin (@PincherMartin June 12, 2026

Here's the darkest news of all:

For those wondering (and you know who you are), California Democrats defined the political beliefs you must hold to watch the World Cup in a series of X posts:
"You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you've ever voted against immigration."
"You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you've ever spoken out against DEI."
"You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you only want people to speak English."
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:00 PM

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 12, 2026 06:01 PM (PJdmB)

2 "Sorry. But this one got dark."

Missed opportunity to put the comments section in a gray box.

Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at June 12, 2026 06:03 PM (JN6SH)

3 Hola.

I'm taking a bold position.

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:03 PM (1wjle)

4 >>>Missed opportunity to put the comments section in a gray box.

I assumed it would just happen organically.

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:03 PM (1wjle)

5 @timburchett - 3h
This is not the America my father fought for.

City Council meeting in Hamtramck, MI
Hard to believe that this is America

https://tinyurl.com/yw4mj8f6

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 12, 2026 06:05 PM (P4ocI)

6 '"... a,' how do I put this, corny low-IQ posturing imbecile who was simultaneously bemoaning the low state of the "common man" while simultaneously holding himself superior to the "common man" and who can't, what's the word?, sing and can barely play guitar.'

'He's a thickwitted New Jersey trash yokel that stupid rock critics, always on the lookout for the next Hero Philosopher Poet Guru Who Will Be Saviors to the World -- of which rock has produced, so far, precisely zero -- gassed up into a sweaty-balled "genius."'

Outstanding. That's exactly what he is.

Posted by: front toward enemy at June 12, 2026 06:07 PM (TIizU)

7 5 @timburchett - 3h
This is not the America my father fought for.

City Council meeting in Hamtramck, MI
Hard to believe that this is America
**********************************

It's the America that Henry Ford fought for.

Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at June 12, 2026 06:07 PM (JN6SH)

8 I like a fair number of Springsteen tunes.
Even though he is a douchebag.

I am making a bold statement here.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 12, 2026 06:08 PM (ufFY8)

9 Best reviews of Springsteen's work ever. Too kind, if anything.

Posted by: huerfano at June 12, 2026 06:08 PM (VJX5o)

10 "You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if "

You can stop there. It's a deal!

Posted by: gp at June 12, 2026 06:08 PM (Jr5Lq)

11 "Healthy masculinity to me is like leaning away from whenever there is some sort of impulse or expectation you've put on yourself to like shut down."

He's so dreamy.

Posted by: Pawl at June 12, 2026 06:08 PM (vFG9F)

12 Shit, it DID get dark. Murderous rage level rising.

This is lighter from earlier.

I found this today and next to Obama's Library of Doom, this may be my new favouritest things this year...

From Deadline

"Slam Frank, the critically acclaimed and provocative new musical that reimagines Anne Frank’s story “through an intersectional, multiethnic, genderqueer, Afro-Latin hip-hop lens,” will begin a limited engagement Off Broadway this September.

Inspired by a viral Twitter thread that asked, “Did Anne Frank ever acknowledge her white privilege?”, Slam Frank imagines what happens when a progressive community theater company decides to transform Anne Frank’s story into an intersectional, multiethnic, genderqueer, Afro-Latin hip-hop musical. Producers describe the musical as “part satire, part reckoning, all conversation-starter.”"

Did Anne Frank ever acknowledge her white privilege?
Yeah, okay....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 12, 2026 06:09 PM (Sco7b)

13 Harvey Marcelin is a product of a poor environment. There's nothing wrong with him, I can prove it.

Posted by: Randolph Duke at June 12, 2026 06:09 PM (z20w/)

14 I'm sure that the CA Democrats got a lot of negative feedback on that

And on another note / that is one revolting looking fake transgender besides being a demonic murderer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 12, 2026 06:10 PM (rZCVI)

15 "How do you see the literal End of Civilization going?"

Poorly for me. I'm resigned to it.

Posted by: gp at June 12, 2026 06:10 PM (Jr5Lq)

16 Inspired by a viral Twitter thread that asked, “Did Anne Frank ever acknowledge her white privilege?”, Slam Frank imagines what happens when a progressive community theater company decides to transform Anne Frank’s story into an intersectional, multiethnic, genderqueer, Afro-Latin hip-hop musical. Producers describe the musical as “part satire, part reckoning, all conversation-starter.”"

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The fact that this is even a thing shows just how far civilization has fallen...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2026 06:11 PM (gnNyN)

17 Taking the "Week in Woke: aka High Bloodpressure thread" one part at a time:

"Most Americans don't mind that you have a different view; what they resent is being lectured and chastised for having an opposing view from the very act they paid good money to see," Eldridge said.

______________________________

Let's clarify. "Most Americans ON THE RIGHT don't mind that you have a different view..." While, moist Americans ON THE LEFT will immediately transgress into ad hominem attack if your view differs from theirs in any fashion, and you don't display reverence for their excellent intelligence on the matter.

Posted by: Orson at June 12, 2026 06:11 PM (dIske)

18 >>>I like a fair number of Springsteen tunes.
Even though he is a douchebag.

I am making a bold statement here.

I think we're all getting the quote wrong because we're all trying to make it make sense.

I think the BlacKKK submoron said,

"I'm taking a bold statement here,"

which makes no sense so we keep trying to rewrite it.

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:13 PM (1wjle)

19 I saw video of the Chris Robinson thing. A LOT of people walked out.

Posted by: steevy at June 12, 2026 06:13 PM (YwEeS)

20
If the subway guy is nuts, he's not innocent of killing someone. He killed her. Proof in the video. To preserve public order he needs to be detained. He may not go to prison but he also can't just walk out of court.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 12, 2026 06:13 PM (rqNGS)

21 Hero Philosopher Poet Guru Who Will Be Savior to the World --of which rock has produced, so far, precisely zero

Dude?

Posted by: David Cassidy at June 12, 2026 06:13 PM (wGerL)

22 >>>19 I saw video of the Chris Robinson thing. A LOT of people walked out.

they showed up to hear the near-novelty-song level "Hot to Handle," they deserve what the got.

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:14 PM (1wjle)

23 "So Gomes even had a gun on him, yet he still used hand tools to perpetrate his barbaric crimes. Fall River Reporter added gruesome details in a follow-up post:

"According to DA Quinn, the murder scene was the worst he's every seen. One victim was shot in his car, dragged onto the street and beat with a brick. The second man was killed by a pitch fork to the back of the head. There are reports of an illegal boxing lead up to the violence.

"These all sound like south-of-the-equator behaviors to me. Gomes' appearance at his arraignment reinforced my impression, as he required a Brazilian Portuguese interpreter."
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You know who did routinely did this sort of shit to wounded and dead white men, especially soldiers? The women of Plains Indian tribes. Pound the enemy's faces to jelly with stones. Cut off their heads, or at least attempt to. Is there a connection? I dunno. It's Stone Age behavior.

Posted by: Gref at June 12, 2026 06:14 PM (5rh/l)

24 Public school in St. Paul, Minnesota

Every girl is in a hijab… in kindergarten
----

Wearing hijab indicates she is eligible for marriage.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 12, 2026 06:14 PM (P4ocI)

25 I'm such an ace fanboy. No homo, but it is embarrassing sometimes.

Posted by: front toward enemy at June 12, 2026 06:15 PM (TIizU)

26 I think I need a drink after reading all of this. My first summer gin and tonic on the deck due to circumstances beyond my control. Drink!

I've never liked croak voice Springsteen. Ever. The only person I knew who did was my BIL and he was tone deaf.

The 88yr old wheelchair tranny looks like a witch from a childhood Halloween book. Wth to let him out after killing 2 girls? I guess if Bundy was still around he could be President!

A good day but very busy as the baby girl is starting to crawl. She does well in reverse for reasons unknown, but is figuring it out and the peace of babysitting will now be gone until she stops eating whatever she finds. She's very cute and an easy lass who never cries. No problem and blessed.

Have a good weekend, Ace!

This week I am positive today is Friday!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 12, 2026 06:15 PM (WONhk)

27 I like a few songs by Springsteen but was never a big fan.
MTV tried to hype him like the second coming of Bob Dylan in the mid-80s, but I was never that impressed (by either of them).

John Mellencamp actually disappointed me more with his politics. He was quite the fixture in the 80s for many people.

Chris Robinson can suck it.
I liked one CD of theirs enough to buy it, and haven't really listened to it since the mid-90s.
He's always been sort of a prick.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 12, 2026 06:15 PM (6ydKt)

28 Fuck.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 06:16 PM (zZu0s)

29 I hate both the Black Crows and Counting Crowes.

Annoying shitstains all of them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 06:16 PM (zZu0s)

30 Wearing hijab indicates she is eligible for marriage.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 12, 2026 06:14 PM (P4ocI)

Yes. And they're in kindergarten.
The prophet would approve.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 12, 2026 06:16 PM (Sco7b)

31 The Belfast Riots Are an Anti-Migrant Pogrom - and the British Media Has Serious Questions to Answer - Owen Jones

Toss Greer calls them pogroms and the BBC's response: "...other political parties out there who would argue that a lot of these people were out there last night just articulating what they would think are legitimate views that are opposed to yours...But listen, let's move on.”
So pogroms are "legitimate" to the BBC

Next time I feel like articulating my political views, i shall remember that taking up arms is considered a legitimate option.

The media and the government need to address that the UK has a racism problem. No trying to pretend it's 'genuine concerns' or people at the end of the tether. The rioters are attacking people who are not white. It is racism or even 'white supremacy' that is the issue here

Labour were far too soft on the Southport rioters and they need to stop the far-right not waste time and political capital trying to appease them.

Once again, black and brown ppl are told to keep calm and carry on when this is the 3rd year in a row they are subjected to collective punishment for gov't policy failures

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 12, 2026 06:17 PM (ycI94)

32 It's wine time.

All whiners can go piss up a rope.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 12, 2026 06:17 PM (5P5DO)

33 It's 1:45 AM in Tehran. Is tonight bomb night?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 12, 2026 06:17 PM (P4ocI)

34 >>>Have a good weekend, Ace!
This week I am positive today is Friday!

you too Christy!

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:17 PM (1wjle)

35 I remember the first time we had a gig at the club that springbean played and made famous. Heard about it for years, they made it sound magical, its the place, man. What a spinal tap moment when a metal band shows up, goes inside, looks around and then at each other and says "fuck, this place is a shithole".

Everything about that douchebag is fake.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 12, 2026 06:17 PM (snZF9)

36 The one on throat slasher has been deleted, ace.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 06:17 PM (zZu0s)

37 I am making a bold statement here.

I think we're all getting the quote wrong because we're all trying to make it make sense.

I think the BlacKKK submoron said,

"I'm taking a bold statement here,"

which makes no sense so we keep trying to rewrite it.

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:13 PM (1wjle)

We are rewriting it because we are much, much smarter.

I'm taking a bold statement here.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 12, 2026 06:17 PM (ufFY8)

38 My full experience of watching soccer consists of driving past the soccer fields where the little boys and girls were running around in knee socks and colorful jerseys when I was on my way home from work. For decades, I saw them running to and sometimes fro, screaming in their high-pitched voices, in the 30 seconds it took me to pass the fields. The children were not the same, year after year, but they may as well have been. It probably wore those little farts out and that's good for the parents. This is what I know of soccer.

Posted by: huerfano at June 12, 2026 06:18 PM (VJX5o)

39 Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 12, 2026 06:08 PM (ufFY

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Pretty much everything before Born in the USA is excellent.

Posted by: 496 at June 12, 2026 06:18 PM (sOtuf)

40 >>“Healthy masculinity to me is…like leaning away from whenever there is some sort of impulse or expectation you’ve put on yourself to like shut down.”

What does that even mean?

Posted by: JackStraw at June 12, 2026 06:19 PM (viF8m)

41 I had a GF who was a Black Crows fan. We saw them perform at the Aragon Ballroom. They are unbearably shrill vocally. Not my thing. She also liked estrogen-heavy moaner Melissa Etheridge; yuck.

Posted by: gp at June 12, 2026 06:20 PM (Jr5Lq)

42
Wait for my musical "The Many Loves of Martin Luther King".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 12, 2026 06:20 PM (rqNGS)

43 I wouldn't go near the guy in the wheelchair (let alone have him as a *roommate*!) just based on his face and expression.

We are wired to sheer away from things which are abnormal and signal danger. If you insist on ignoring your wiring, well, so be it, but don't whine "Somebody should have told me!!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 06:20 PM (wzUl9)

44 Rather than piss and moan about the horrors of it all, when can we expect some pushback? I'd presume it's getting close, but I thought that 5 years ago.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 12, 2026 06:20 PM (jehhT)

45 What planet is Harvey from?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 12, 2026 06:20 PM (Cqx++)

46 Rosa DeLauro took up serial killing?

Posted by: huerfano at June 12, 2026 06:21 PM (VJX5o)

47 For those wondering (and you know who you are), California Democrats defined the political beliefs you must hold to watch the World Cup in a series of X posts:
"You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you've ever voted against immigration."

"You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you've ever spoken out against DEI."

"You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you only want people to speak English."

Posted by: Duncanthrax

Well, damn. Now I wish a gave a shit about the World Cup. I do enjoy a good spite watch.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at June 12, 2026 06:21 PM (bfy6w)

48 Pro-Hamas "protesters" smashed a female cop in the spine with a sledgehammer to stop her from arresting their fellow "protesters." They had invaded the offices of a business they claim was an "arms supplier to Israel," which is 1, probably a lie, and 2, it also wouldn't matter if they were legally selling arms to Israel, you fucking degenerate terrorists.

I saw the surveillance video from that somewhere a week or so ago. These people used a van to ram the rolling doors of the warehouse portion of the building, then a group strolled in with masks and sledgehammers chasing a security guard down the hallway.

Cops eventually get there and have to chase them around the building, until eventually putting one guy down with a Tazer and a loud-mouthed chick got the same treatment after she refused to comply.

The left is getting brazen world-wide.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 12, 2026 06:21 PM (6ydKt)

49 i replaced Today's Throat Slashing link but I think the Euros are deleting them.

I'm not going to keep updating. Search for "Burnley Lancanshire knife attack."

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:21 PM (1wjle)

50
"You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you've ever voted against immigration."

"You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you've ever spoken out against DEI."

"You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you only want people to speak English."

___________

Thank God! I'm off the hook!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 12, 2026 06:21 PM (rqNGS)

51 I can't understand what Springsteen is "singing" about most of the time. He was once a fairly good songwriter, and there are some lyrics in one or two of his songs that are pretty good. Otherwise, I could do without hearing his name again ever.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 06:21 PM (wzUl9)

52 If I want to listen to an impression of Bob Dylan I'll listen to Tom Petty, not Bruce, thank you very much.

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at June 12, 2026 06:22 PM (zdYK9)

53 Best reviews of Springsteen's work ever. Too kind, if anything.
Posted by: huerfano

He's first and foremost a monumental phony. He wrote about fixin' cars when he couldn't even drive. He claimed homo status to avoid the draft. He ain't no working class hero and his newer stuff is awful.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 12, 2026 06:22 PM (l26NL)

54 What does that even mean?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 12, 2026 06:19 PM (viF8m)

She is a deeply disturbed woman who hates everyone around her, probably due to abuse within Hollywood and so she wants to be a dude because then she won't have to feel anything.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 06:22 PM (zZu0s)

55 >>>She also liked estrogen-heavy moaner Melissa Etheridge; yuck.

I only remember the name and the album cover with her covering her boobs with a Gibson (?) guitar.

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:22 PM (1wjle)

56 >>> Presiding Federal Judge Kenneth Bell found that Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr did not understand the proceedings and would be unable to assist in his defense.

At that moment he should have been taking out back and shot like the rabid dog he is.

For some reason long thought-out deliberated pre-meditated murder is deemed worse than someone just up and killing somebody for shits and grins. The spontaneous killers are the ones who should be put down soonest.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 12, 2026 06:22 PM (/lPRQ)

57 How do you see the literal End of Civilization going? Do you think you're going to finally get to the gym and put on a quick 40 pounds of muscle you you can start cracking heads?
_______________________________

The perfect scenario would be an asteroid (world ender) coming for the Earth with about a week or two advance notice. However, Trump makes the announcement at a press conference, so no one on the Left believes him....and the Right gets two weeks of aggressive therapy of a symbolic nature without challenge due to the Lefts irrational bias. IOW, we make a list and try to get our check marks within the remaining time frame.

Posted by: Orson at June 12, 2026 06:23 PM (dIske)

58 Guess I'm not watching the World Cup.

Posted by: DPICM at June 12, 2026 06:23 PM (zweKz)

59 Turning Point UK 🇬🇧
@TPointUK
11h
Northern Ireland police deploy late night snatch squads grabbing community leaders to deter future anti-migrant protests.

Did they ever do anything like this during Black Lives Matter or the Palestine marches?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 12, 2026 06:24 PM (P4ocI)

60 >>> He claimed homo status to avoid the draft.

really?!

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:24 PM (1wjle)

61 >>>Do you understand that when the social compact finally dissolves in degenerate third-world terrorist acid, you weaklings will be the first in danger? Do you not understand that the social compact protects you pathetic crybaby bitchmade soyboys and Obese Karens with extreme emotional dysregulation most of all?

They, in fact, do not understand.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 12, 2026 06:24 PM (dK+Kv)

62 “Healthy masculinity to me is…like leaning away from whenever there is some sort of impulse or expectation you’ve put on yourself to like shut down.”

What does that even mean?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 12, 2026

***
Parsing carefully with my magnificent Ellery Queenian brain, I think "Elliott" means that if you have the impulse or urge to "shut down," you should lean away from it; that *that* is "healthy masculinity."

Or, you know, it might just be baby's prattle.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 06:24 PM (wzUl9)

63 I only remember the name and the album cover with her covering her boobs with a Gibson (?) guitar.
Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:22 PM (1wjle)

Wasn't she 'im the only one'?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 06:24 PM (zZu0s)

64 So "Elliot" Paige hated men so much that she became one so (s)he can set an example for the rest of us men on how to live our lives???

Sorry toots, if you cry all of the time and bruise when you bump into a door frame, you ain't a man.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 12, 2026 06:25 PM (THY4u)

65 when i saw the bosses visage on both my mom's news mag and the one the neighnors read, i had never heard of him. he got an enormous boost when he was a local sensation. the first stuff i heard on the radio was ok, and eventually i became fond of clarence clemons amazing work. but it got old really fast and was never deserving of all the hype they received. i knew a kid that was really impressed by an estreet show he saw, but one time driving past alpine valley the marquis announced zztop was playing there ansd he was like, "who's that?" so... yeah. then my besty married into a fam of gals that were all brucet bonkers. the drunmken shouting matches that ensued over the years were legendary- none of my crew was having any of that.

Posted by: cmeat at June 12, 2026 06:25 PM (R11M+)

66 If you take away singing about being on the edge of town during the wee-wee hours, there's not much else left.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Bay Area Stochastic Musicologist (and Housekeeper) at June 12, 2026 06:25 PM (kLJmv)

67 Itinerant Alley, to my way of thinking due process was done at that point and execution should have been scheduled for the next morning.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 12, 2026 06:26 PM (5P5DO)

68 There is so much wrong out there about being declared incompetent- the goal in that 4 months is to make him competent so he can stand trial. Which is the outcome I want. He is not running free, he is in a mental health facility, incarcerated if you will. If he is not competent, he stays in the facility until he is - and then he goes to trial. Do people get out of these facilities? Yes. The person who shot Reagan is an example. But he was in the mental health facility for decades. I do not think he should have been freed, but it wasn’t 2 weeks and released.

Posted by: Piper at June 12, 2026 06:26 PM (OoFl2)

69 corny low-IQ posturing imbecile who was simultaneously bemoaning the low state of the "common man" while holding himself superior to the "common man" and who can't, what's the word?, sing and can barely play guitar.

He's no Southside Johnny, that's for sure.

Posted by: t-bird at June 12, 2026 06:26 PM (Q6Bu6)

70 Sorry toots, if you cry all of the time and bruise when you bump into a door frame, you ain't a man.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 12, 2026 06:25 PM (THY4u)

That and the whole front hole where the penis should be thing.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 12, 2026 06:26 PM (dK+Kv)

71 "You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you've ever voted against immigration."

"You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you've ever spoken out against DEI."

"You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you only want people to speak English."

I considered sneaking in some clips to surprise you guys, but that's a little too cruel and gay.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 12, 2026 06:26 PM (ycI94)

72 Bruce Springsteen fucking sucks. Most overrated performer ever. I'm convinced that nobody actually likes him, everyone just thinks they'll be the weird one if they point out that he sucks.

I'm annoyed about you bringing up the Black Crowes, because I can't remember their one song at all right now, but I feel like pretty soon it's going to pop into my head and then won't leave for the rest of the weekend.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at June 12, 2026 06:26 PM (ZpO+l)

73 really?!
Posted by: ace

I read it in a biography of him when I was in college. To be fair he claimed ANYTHING that would get him out of the draft.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 12, 2026 06:27 PM (l26NL)

74 Oh, Michigan tv!

New Haley Stevens ad. With obama talking!

Because I can't hate this bitch enough already....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 12, 2026 06:27 PM (Sco7b)

75 I like a fair number of Springsteen tunes.
Even though he is a douchebag.

I am making a bold statement here.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt
===

Every song of his I thought I liked, then I realized its Peter Gabriel.
Unforgivable mistake.

Well there was that other song that was so-so... ooops, John Cougar Mellonballs.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 12, 2026 06:27 PM (/lPRQ)

76 the record industry gave a big old push to a lot of crap musicians

https://youtu.be/MNaEKGCZoSQ?si=cZxC5B9J-tLEPRMv

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:27 PM (1wjle)

77 My full experience of watching soccer consists of driving past the soccer fields where the little boys and girls were running around in knee socks and colorful jerseys when I was on my way home from work. For decades, I saw them running to and sometimes fro, screaming in their high-pitched voices, in the 30 seconds it took me to pass the fields. The children were not the same, year after year, but they may as well have been. It probably wore those little farts out and that's good for the parents. This is what I know of soccer.
Posted by: huerfano at June 12, 2026 06:18 PM (VJX5o)

We made up games to do that far better than soccer. One was bullet, like dodge ball with tennis balls. If you got hit you could not use the limb as if you were shot and had to go to the hospital area to recover. If you got a fatal hit, well you are out.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 12, 2026 06:27 PM (uhVAy)

78 For some reason long thought-out deliberated pre-meditated murder is deemed worse than someone just up and killing somebody for shits and grins. The spontaneous killers are the ones who should be put down soonest.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 12, 2026 06:22 PM (/lPRQ)
----
It is an interesting problem.

The spontaneous killer probably doesn't understand the difference between right/wrong, good/evil. It's beyond their comprehension.

The pre-meditated killer presumably understands that society considers their choice to be wrong/evil, but goes ahead and does it anyway.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2026 06:28 PM (gnNyN)

79 Bruce Springsteen is the Howard Stern of Jimmy Kimmels.

Posted by: mr tmz at June 12, 2026 06:28 PM (rJ48h)

80 I disliked springsteen the first time i heard him singing about walking out on his wife and kid.

Posted by: Dark L at June 12, 2026 06:28 PM (DZ9Lv)

81 Cops lie. Its what they do, besides bullying and eating donuts and piling up pension hours.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 12, 2026 06:28 PM (xcxpd)

82 “Healthy masculinity to me is…like leaning away from whenever there is some sort of impulse or expectation you’ve put on yourself to like shut down.”

What does that even mean?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 12, 2026 06:19 PM (viF8m)

If someone disrespects me, I'm going to stab them in the heart.

Pretend men have no idea how often guys rein themselves in because the only other option is a fight.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 12, 2026 06:28 PM (ExV1e)

83 Marcelin then took Leydon's remains and dumped her torso on a street corner and rolled over to a 99 Cent store with the severed leg in his wheelchair.

Marcelin has spent more than 50 years in prison, dating back to 1963, for killing 2 of his girlfriends before being let out on parole in 2019 after he promised to stay out of trouble.

---

But he promised guys....

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 12, 2026 06:28 PM (THY4u)

84
My congresswoman, Hillary Scholtan, has been exposed in divorce filings to have had bugging devices placed on her husband's car and being subject to psychotic rants.

There are no sane women democrats in Michigan, especially the ones who claim to be churchgoing moderates.

Posted by: Auspex at June 12, 2026 06:28 PM (Y8DZL)

85 Springsteen, as a musician/singer sucks.

The repetitive use of those chimes reprising the melody in the background hurts my teeth.

He doesn't sing, he yells.

He's a product of the music "industry".

Posted by: pawn at June 12, 2026 06:29 PM (+rSJz)

86 >>>I read it in a biography of him when I was in college. To be fair he claimed ANYTHING that would get him out of the draft.

I looked it up -- he pretended to be on LSD and mentally ill.

They claim he would have failed anyway, due to a motorcycle injury, but that sounds to me like a bit of Legend created by a record company's PR shop.

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:29 PM (1wjle)

87 ittle boys and girls were running around in knee socks and colorful jerseys

Read that in a Peter Lorre voice.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 12, 2026 06:29 PM (Kt19C)

88 GAH THAT PICTURE of that girlfriend-murdering freak! That thing needs a warning. That's nightmare fuel right there.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 12, 2026 06:29 PM (k9OZB)

89 I have to take the dog out. But not before giving everyone here hope that things will get better.

The Obama Library of Doom opens in ONE WEEK!
I'm WAY too excited about this!

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 12, 2026 06:29 PM (Sco7b)

90 There is so much wrong out there about being declared incompetent- the goal in that 4 months is to make him competent so he can stand trial. Which is the outcome I want. He is not running free, he is in a mental health facility, incarcerated if you will. If he is not competent, he stays in the facility until he is - and then he goes to trial. Do people get out of these facilities? Yes. The person who shot Reagan is an example. But he was in the mental health facility for decades. I do not think he should have been freed, but it wasn’t 2 weeks and released.
Posted by: Piper at June 12, 2026 06:26 PM (OoFl2)

I don't care if *he* understands it. If a mad dog is captured and we decide what to do with it, it doesn't matter if he understands.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 12, 2026 06:29 PM (uhVAy)

91 I'm going to make a bold claim, in keeping with ace's policy.

Listening to my cats yowl in their cat carriers as I take them to the vet is preferable to listening to any of Bruce Springsteen's music.

I never understood why he was popular.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2026 06:29 PM (gnNyN)

92 Springsteen's second album is actually pretty good. I will still listen to it from time to time. It didn't sell back then though, and to me his entire career track was simplify, simplify til the Born In The USA album hit right in the center of mainstream rock at that time and made him a mint. Basically Huey Lewis at that point. He also put on lengthy dramatic concerts back then. Politics? He was a high school dropout and was schooled in leftism by commie rock critics who also pushed him as a cult figure and kept him afloat til he became commercial. The defining moment of his personality to me is that after the USA tour was over he basically told his supposedly beloved E Street Band it was over and they were on their own, too bad. When being a solo act didn't bring in enough money eventually he called them back again.

Posted by: Azjaeger at June 12, 2026 06:30 PM (3/XaG)

93 Rather than piss and moan about the horrors of it all, when can we expect some pushback? I'd presume it's getting close, but I thought that 5 years ago.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 12, 2026 06:20 PM (jehhT)

If we survive this phase of history, the books will make it seem like the time was shorter.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 12, 2026 06:30 PM (ExV1e)

94 ALERT: Elderly New York City transgender serial killer who rode around with his girlfriends' severed leg in his electric wheelchair will serve the rest of their life behind bars.

---

Is it their or thems? I don't even know anymore.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 12, 2026 06:30 PM (THY4u)

95 Elderly "trans" serial killer with his girlfriend's severed leg while operating an electric wheelchair.
________________________

TBH, I would have liked to have seen that just to say "I saw that." Hell, just reading about this is an event.

Did he lead the cops on a chase before being arrested? Reaching up from the wheelchair with the leg to push the crossing button on the street.

Posted by: Orson at June 12, 2026 06:31 PM (dIske)

96 He understood how to get on a subway and stab an innocent person. I want him dead.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 12, 2026 06:31 PM (5P5DO)

97 Parsing carefully with my magnificent Ellery Queenian brain, I think "Elliott" means that if you have the impulse or urge to "shut down," you should lean away from it; that *that* is "healthy masculinity."

Or, you know, it might just be baby's prattle.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026

**
The nonsensical ravings of a lunatic mind!

Posted by: Viktor Fronkensteen, M.D. at June 12, 2026 06:31 PM (wzUl9)

98 I am very confused as to why the world is as backwards as it seems right now, it doesn’t make any sense. Why would anyone want to protect 3rd world heathens who cost money and commit crimes, heinous disgusting crimes? Who doesn’t recoil at a child being raped? Who thinks they are on the side of good when they kidnap people in the dead of night for wrongthink?

Hey wait a minute- didn’t the left say Trump would snatch people off the street in the dead of night because he is a monster?

Posted by: Piper at June 12, 2026 06:31 PM (OoFl2)

99 If you're snatching people up in the middle of the night, wouldn't that more than likely cause more people to be pissed?

I'm taking a bold statement here.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 12, 2026 06:32 PM (n5tGW)

100 I saw Springsteen on my 19th birthday. A friend of mine was a scalper and got us front row tickets. I was really blown away by the 3 and a half hour concert and really became a fan. So his recent foray into thinly disguised Marxism is painful for me, but I deleted his whole catalogue.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 12, 2026 06:32 PM (l26NL)

101 Presiding Federal Judge Kenneth Bell found that Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr did not understand the proceedings and would be unable to assist in his defense

Funny, I don't understand the proceedings and would be unable to assist in his defense, either. Because he has none.

Posted by: t-bird at June 12, 2026 06:32 PM (Q6Bu6)

102 New Haley Stevens ad. With obama talking!

Because I can't hate this bitch enough already....
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 12, 2026 06:27 PM (Sco7b)

I can't press the mute button fast enough when that cvnt's face appears...

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 12, 2026 06:32 PM (ufFY8)

103
Marcelin has spent more than 50 years in prison, dating back to 1963, for killing 2 of his girlfriends before being let out on parole in 2019 after he promised to stay out of trouble.

But he promised guys....
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 12, 2026 06:28

It's like the judges see a psycho killer and use I can fix him as a guiding principle.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 12, 2026 06:32 PM (Y6Hh/)

104 91 I'm going to make a bold claim, in keeping with ace's policy.

Listening to my cats yowl in their cat carriers as I take them to the vet is preferable to listening to any of Bruce Springsteen's music.

I never understood why he was popular.

---

Same, always thought he sucked; but then again, I'm a MetalHead so...

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 12, 2026 06:32 PM (THY4u)

105 Saw the Black Crows once. Heaviest pot smell in any concert I ever attended, including the Dead. They were ok, appears second hand smoke has gotten to Robinson

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 12, 2026 06:32 PM (IiEl1)

106 Hey wait a minute- didn’t the left say Trump would snatch people off the street in the dead of night because he is a monster?
Posted by: Piper

He was using government power to abduct the wrong people!!!!

Posted by: Transtifa/Commie/Open Borders Alliance at June 12, 2026 06:33 PM (ycI94)

107 If you're snatching people up in the middle of the night, wouldn't that more than likely cause more people to be pissed?

I'm taking a bold statement here.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 12, 2026 06:32 PM (n5tGW)

As I said earlier:

These cops have houses.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 06:33 PM (zZu0s)

108 Back. News

CBS - Texas shooting
NBC - tornado
ABC - tornados

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 12, 2026 06:34 PM (Sco7b)

109 You'll meet a Leo in a Geo,
he'll take you down to Rio,
this week's lucky numbers are
two eight six five three-oh.

Posted by: Bruce Springsteen's Astrological Forecast at June 12, 2026 06:34 PM (1wjle)

110 I thought the CA Democrat Party World Cup postings were a parody until I went on X and found lots of gems such as this one:

California Democratic Party
@CA_Dem
·
Jun 10
California is still counting votes and that’s a good thing. In a state with more than 23 million voters, ensuring that every ballot is verified and processed takes time. Every vote deserves to be counted.

Posted by: beckster at June 12, 2026 06:34 PM (kX27y)

111 96 He understood how to get on a subway and stab an innocent person. I want him dead.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 12, 2026

I want him dead, too. Which is why I want him to be declared competent as soon as possible so he can go to trial.

I do wonder if we are going to get a legally insane verdict, though, as high as that bar is. But I believe in NC, you then go spend the rest of your life in a mental hospital. Maybe another insane person can meter out justice.

Posted by: Piper at June 12, 2026 06:34 PM (OoFl2)

112 You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you're straight .

Posted by: polynikes at June 12, 2026 06:35 PM (GseMx)

113 Mete

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 06:35 PM (zZu0s)

114 "If you're snatching people up in the middle of the night, wouldn't that more than likely cause more people to be pissed?"

Not if they were already up to take a piss.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at June 12, 2026 06:35 PM (Vpqw1)

115 In fairness, the Black Crowes did have a couple of other hits besides the Otis Redding cover (the original of which I heard for the first time a few weeks ago and thought an inferior version).

Posted by: logorof at June 12, 2026 06:35 PM (jo6FO)

116 Aetius, and families.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 12, 2026 06:35 PM (5P5DO)

117 Read that in a Peter Lorre voice.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

Contemplating a crime

Posted by: Dark L at June 12, 2026 06:36 PM (DZ9Lv)

118 Wait. There are still mental hospitals? I thought that was so '70s, you know, like Pet Rocks and avocado-colored refrigerators.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 06:36 PM (wzUl9)

119 You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you're straight .
Posted by: polynikes at June 12, 2026 06:35 PM (GseMx)

ace, how's the European kick ball going?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 06:36 PM (zZu0s)

120 50
"You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you've ever voted against immigration."

"You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you've ever spoken out against DEI."

"You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you only want people to speak English."

___________

Thank God! I'm off the hook!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 12, 2026 06:21 PM (rqNGS)

You're not allowed to cut your dick off if your transphobic.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 12, 2026 06:36 PM (w/O5Q)

121 46 Rosa DeLauro took up serial killing?
Posted by: huerfano at June 12, 2026 06:21 PM (VJX5o)

It does look like her! Run!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 12, 2026 06:36 PM (WONhk)

122 Northern Ireland police deploy late night snatch squads grabbing community leaders to deter future anti-migrant protests.

If there's one thing that's guaranteed to calm things down in Ireland, it's the Brits snatching up community leaders.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 12, 2026 06:36 PM (ExV1e)

123 It's like an old Western movie where the Doc has to save a gunshot outlaw so he can be tried and hanged.

Posted by: fd at June 12, 2026 06:36 PM (vFG9F)

124 88 year old Harvey looks like Scorpius from Farscape which he was nicknamed Harvey .

Too weird.

Posted by: polynikes at June 12, 2026 06:37 PM (GseMx)

125 "You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you've ever voted against immigration."

"You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you've ever spoken out against DEI."

"You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you only want people to speak English."

How about, "You're not allowed to benefit from living in America if you believe any of those things"?

Posted by: GWB at June 12, 2026 06:37 PM (kU0PQ)

126 frequently leftists leave out the word "illegal" when talking about immigration. so much so you might think it on purpose.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 12, 2026 06:37 PM (n5tGW)

127 No out of country vacays for me. Fuck that shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 12, 2026 06:37 PM (0GyNw)

128 62 “Healthy masculinity to me is…like leaning away from whenever there is some sort of impulse or expectation you’ve put on yourself to like shut down.”

What does that even mean?
Posted by: JackStraw
--

She'll still bend over for the right guy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 12, 2026 06:38 PM (P4ocI)

129 Oh no, I have violated all four of those World Cup rules! Its OK I wasn't going to watch it anyway so its good

Posted by: Azjaeger at June 12, 2026 06:38 PM (3/XaG)

130
Not if they were already up to take a piss.

Look into glycine. It's cheap, and it works.

Posted by: biteme at June 12, 2026 06:38 PM (xWS9V)

131 If there's one thing that's guaranteed to calm things down in Ireland, it's the Brits snatching up community leaders.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Queer Starmer can really read a room, can't he?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 12, 2026 06:38 PM (l26NL)

132 88 year old Harvey looks like Scorpius from Farscape which he was nicknamed Harvey .

Too weird.
Posted by: polynikes at June 12, 2026 06:37 PM (GseMx)

Scorpius was a lot more sane.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 06:38 PM (zZu0s)

133 Wise Ass Guy

Posted by: Pascal at June 12, 2026 06:38 PM (XXncT)

134 117 Read that in a Peter Lorre voice.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

Contemplating a crime
Posted by: Dark L at June 12, 2026 06:36 PM (DZ9Lv)

A Righteous earworm:

https://youtu.be/Ak_MTXQALa0

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Bay Area Stochastic Musicologist (and Housekeeper) at June 12, 2026 06:38 PM (kLJmv)

135 The closest Bruce Springsteen got to a decent song was Glory Days. For him, that was probably the first time he managed a boner.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 12, 2026 06:38 PM (qx7Zg)

136 Wait. There are still mental hospitals? I thought that was so '70s, you know, like Pet Rocks and avocado-colored refrigerators.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 06:36 PM (wzUl9)

Well, they brought back avocado-colored refrigerators, so....

Posted by: GWB at June 12, 2026 06:38 PM (kU0PQ)

137 "looked it up -- he pretended to be on LSD and mentally ill."

Albert Bouchard (BOC) went to his induction physical actually on LSD. Failed.

Posted by: Dark L at June 12, 2026 06:39 PM (DZ9Lv)

138 The press here doesn't identify the perps description initially if they are of a certain ethnicity.

Posted by: polynikes at June 12, 2026 06:39 PM (GseMx)

139 >>135 The closest Bruce Springsteen got to a decent song was Glory Days. For him, that was probably the first time he managed a boner.

that's so horrible, the corniest, stupidest, drunk guys singalong song.

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:39 PM (1wjle)

140 Piper , you are a good person. I am a vengeful bitch. The competency trial was due process enough. Caught in the act, instant execution.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 12, 2026 06:39 PM (5P5DO)

141 "You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you've ever voted against immigration."

It's a trick! No one's ever voted against it. Or for it. No one's ever asked the voters to weigh in, period.

Posted by: JuJuBee at June 12, 2026 06:40 PM (tM5h4)

142 I have two questions about the World Cup of kickyball.

How many stadiums do you expect to see damaged or destroyed by the fans?

How many stadiums will be empty because all the fans are at Buc-ee's?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 12, 2026 06:40 PM (qx7Zg)

143 Strong work again this week, Ace. Why don't you finish out the afternoon and then take the rest of the week off.

(I'm not supposed to let this leak, but you are still in the running for Employee of the Month)

Posted by: muldoon at June 12, 2026 06:40 PM (qgHp7)

144 Wait. There are still mental hospitals? I thought that was so '70s, you know, like Pet Rocks and avocado-colored refrigerators.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026
*
Well, they brought back avocado-colored refrigerators, so....
Posted by: GWB at June 12, 2026

***
How about a Harvest Gold one? I'd love one of those!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 06:40 PM (wzUl9)

145 Scorpius was a lot more sane.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 06:38 PM (zZu0s)
----
One of the best villains ever.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2026 06:41 PM (gnNyN)

146 On the flip side of horror, I saw my first yellow swallowtail butterfly yesterday. Size of a bird. This is always a monumental day for my 5yr old 1st girlie and me. She's seen white ones and beat me to the day.

I was in the car in a parking lot (waiting on my dude) and it flew by as Unchained Melody (live with Andy Williams) came on my phone.

Before autotune or lip sync and every note he sang was perfection.

That song will never get old altho I rarely have it come up on my mix. I think God knew I needed that butterfly.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 12, 2026 06:41 PM (WONhk)

147 Born in the USA was anti-American so he can't blame being a douche nozzle on Trump. He's always been that way.

Posted by: polynikes at June 12, 2026 06:41 PM (GseMx)

148 Contemplating a crime
Posted by: Dark L at June 12, 2026 06:36 PM (DZ9Lv)

A Righteous earworm:

https://youtu.be/Ak_MTXQALa0

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes,

Nice!

Posted by: Dark L at June 12, 2026 06:41 PM (DZ9Lv)

149 I almost want to watch one minute of soccer to defy these people who are telling me what I am allowed to do. But I can't really afford to waste that minute.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 12, 2026 06:42 PM (n5tGW)

150 You can wrap your fridge in any color, pattern, or image you want nowadays.

Posted by: fd at June 12, 2026 06:42 PM (vFG9F)

151 >>(which I guess would include garrett, and I don't mean that as an insult, but garrett generally has ecumenical tastes and likes most of the big rock acts)

Can't you just go back to calling me gay?

Because, this...THIS is insulting.

Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2026 06:42 PM (JIHG4)

152 I’ve always been fascinated by people who believe some jackass who can sing a song or act in a movie has something truthful, unbiased and cogent to say about, well, anything. We have truly lost the art of argument, and an ability to factually and intellectually debate, or even understand, simple facts and make truthful conclusions. Social media has made people more lazy and stupid.

Springsteen was always a mouth breathing retard, whose music sucked and never lived up to the hype, promoted by his fellow tards. He turned the plight of displaced workers into a lifetime gig that made him millions, and made them props. He’s an idiot who if he didn’t have a stage to stand on, would be dribbling his fake ass delusional nonsense outside the local 7-11.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 12, 2026 06:42 PM (upeQk)

153
How about a Harvest Gold one? I'd love one of those!

Heh. I picked up a GE Hotpoint in Harvest Gold a few years back for $200. Wife found it on FB marketplace or some other local app.

Posted by: biteme at June 12, 2026 06:43 PM (xWS9V)

154 Springsteen was always a mouth breathing retard, whose music sucked and never lived up to the hype, promoted by his fellow tards. He turned the plight of displaced workers into a lifetime gig that made him millions, and made them props. He’s an idiot who if he didn’t have a stage to stand on, would be dribbling his fake ass delusional nonsense outside the local 7-11.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 12, 2026 06:42 PM (upeQk)

So, he'd be casting a late ballot in LA for Raman for $5.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 12, 2026 06:43 PM (qx7Zg)

155 Holy f is Ace on ROLL this week or what ?

Posted by: Viso Latte at June 12, 2026 06:43 PM (W28X+)

156 One of the best villains ever.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2026 06:41 PM (gnNyN)

He was understandable. Ruthless. You can understand why he was doing what he did.

And yet the show never tried to make him a hero, even in the buddy episodes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 06:43 PM (zZu0s)

157 When they were good, the Black Crowes were quite good, and Robinson could sing well, good 70s style blues rock, but that was 30 years ago and it's a little odd that he thinks he's enough of a deal still to have political influence lol.

Posted by: Azjaeger at June 12, 2026 06:43 PM (3/XaG)

158 You can wrap your fridge in any color, pattern, or image you want nowadays.
Posted by: fd at June 12, 2026

***
Like the colorful "wraps" gang members put on their cars? Not my style, ese.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 06:43 PM (wzUl9)

159 Wife made her own version of the Taco Bell Steak Cantina bowl.

Pretty damn tasty.

This Gimlet ain’t bad either.

I’m glad Musk is now a trillionaire, his success will be our success.

Or at the very least, shareholders success.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 12, 2026 06:43 PM (XV/Pl)

160 118 Wait. There are still mental hospitals? I thought that was so '70s, you know, like Pet Rocks and avocado-colored refrigerators.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Yes, just not as many as there used to be, and the standards for locking people up in them are vastly different. Because then you are locking people up without due process, which was the anrgument the left used to get us here. And there is a problem, right? Because there are people who legit need to be locked up. But there were also people getting locked up because they were mildly intellectually disabled (hello, Kennedys!), or because a husband thought his wife was a PIA so she was labeled “hysterical”. I guess a hysterectomy didn’t fix that issue or something. It’s like it’s all or nothing with this crowd.

Posted by: Piper at June 12, 2026 06:43 PM (OoFl2)

161 While that's bad, Europe is really putting on hall-of-fame performance

Who's got two thumbs up for Ireland finally finding their spine?

This guy.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2026 06:43 PM (+gsxO)

162 >>>Because, this...THIS is insulting.

sorry. I was taking a bold statement.

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:44 PM (1wjle)

163 Like me telling those soy boys they're not allowed to watch the UFC on the WH lawn if they're a fucking commie.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 12, 2026 06:44 PM (n5tGW)

164 Never listened to whitebread acts like Springsteen . I'll be in R&B section.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 12, 2026 06:45 PM (5P5DO)

165 The closest Bruce Springsteen got to a decent song was Glory Days. For him, that was probably the first time he managed a boner.

that's so horrible, the corniest, stupidest, drunk guys singalong song.

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:39 PM (1wjle)

I loathe that song

"He can throw that *speedball by ya
Makin' love like a pool boy"

*WTF is a speedball? Is that a drugs thing?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Mel Cooley at June 12, 2026 06:45 PM (0aYVJ)

166 I don't care for sissy foreigner kickball.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at June 12, 2026 06:45 PM (wBaIH)

167 "Born in the USA was anti-American so he can't blame being a douche nozzle on Trump. He's always been that way.
Posted by: polynikes"

I hate that song. Over and over. Springstink sucks.

Posted by: fd at June 12, 2026 06:45 PM (vFG9F)

168 >“Healthy masculinity to me is…like leaning away from whenever there is some sort of impulse or expectation you’ve put on yourself to like shut down.”
----

wtf does that even mean

Posted by: Don Black at June 12, 2026 06:45 PM (ZxPkt)

169 I saw the Black Crows at the Cynthia Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands , TX .

I want to say the White Stripes opened for them but I'd be lying.

Posted by: polynikes at June 12, 2026 06:46 PM (GseMx)

170 Reagan used Born in the USA as his 1984 campaign song( well not him but his campaign) . Even as a kid I realized it was anti American as soon as I listened to the lyrics.

Posted by: steevy at June 12, 2026 06:46 PM (YwEeS)

171 Bruce Springsteen fucking sucks. Most overrated performer ever. I'm convinced that nobody actually likes him, everyone just thinks they'll be the weird one if they point out that he sucks.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at June 12, 2026 06:26 PM (ZpO+l)

I have no problem saying he blows ass.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 12, 2026 06:46 PM (snZF9)

172 >>>Because, this...THIS is insulting.

sorry. I was taking a bold statement.
Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:44 PM (1wjle)

By 'big rock cats' I thought you were referring to mountain lions or Maine coons.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 06:46 PM (zZu0s)

173 what about Hungry Heart?

It's like a fucking Muppets song except not catchy.

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:47 PM (1wjle)

174 >>>Popehat -- Ken White, a deranged twitter-obsessive with emotional dysregulation and leftwing lawyer and in good standing with the bar in California, Pennsylvania, and DC

You left out the scariest part. White is a former assistant US attorney.

Posted by: No Name Today at June 12, 2026 06:47 PM (8mulE)

175 "He can throw that *speedball by ya
Makin' love like a pool boy"

*WTF is a speedball? Is that a drugs thing?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Mel Cooley at June 12, 2026

***
I seem to recall it was a mix of cocaine and heroin. Could be wrong, as I was never a druggie and never hung out with people who were into more than booze and a little pot.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 06:47 PM (wzUl9)

176 Best Springsteen song isn't even his. Jersey Girl is way better when done by Tom Waits.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 12, 2026 06:47 PM (viF8m)

177 Iirc a lot of fellow musicians hate Chris Robinson. I remember the dude from Blues Traveler in particular hating him.

Posted by: steevy at June 12, 2026 06:47 PM (YwEeS)

178 The defining moment of his personality to me is that after the USA tour was over he basically told his supposedly beloved E Street Band it was over and they were on their own, too bad.

Funny, but he did exactly the same thing to his wife.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 12, 2026 06:47 PM (guGkK)

179
*bursts in waving telegram*

Canada tied Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1-1! Thrilling!!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 12, 2026 06:47 PM (rqNGS)

180 "I'm on Fire"? Fuck you, Blockhead, you should be.

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:47 PM (1wjle)

181 Fun fact about the time I saw Springsteen, I kept the ticket and the price was $7.50.

Also, about two weeks before I saw Bob Dylan in the same venue.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 12, 2026 06:48 PM (l26NL)

182 Most actors, musicians, entertainers of all ilk are Leftists. Some more than others.

So this doesn't surprise me at all. You can try to divorce the artist from the art.

I can't always do that, myself. So, you know, fuck Roman Polanski and fuck David Geffen.

You gotta find your own line.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 12, 2026 06:48 PM (xcxpd)

183 *WTF is a speedball? Is that a drugs thing?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Mel Cooley at June 12, 2026 06:45 PM (0aYVJ)

Yup. It may have been what killed john belushi, I'm not quite sure. Its a drug thing. Cocain and heroin.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 12, 2026 06:48 PM (snZF9)

184
140 Piper , you are a good person. I am a vengeful bitch. The competency trial was due process enough. Caught in the act, instant execution.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 12, 2026 06:39 PM (5P5DO)

I agree with you completely there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 12, 2026 06:48 PM (orF8y)

185 I can't stand his Santa Claus is Coming to Town either and people love that shit.

Posted by: steevy at June 12, 2026 06:48 PM (YwEeS)

186 Maybe Musk will buy Bluesky now😀

Posted by: polynikes at June 12, 2026 06:48 PM (GseMx)

187 Well, that's one way to put it

@Kalshi 5h
JUST IN: SpaceX is now worth more than Canada

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 12, 2026 06:49 PM (diia5)

188 175 "He can throw that *speedball by ya
Makin' love like a pool boy"

*WTF is a speedball? Is that a drugs thing?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Mel Cooley at June 12, 2026

***
I seem to recall it was a mix of cocaine and heroin. Could be wrong, as I was never a druggie and never hung out with people who were into more than booze and a little pot.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 06:47 PM (wzUl9)

Could be a drug ref, could be baseball. Dunno, those lyrics are not as literal as 'Our House' by Madness.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 12, 2026 06:49 PM (xcxpd)

189 Piper , you are a good person. I am a vengeful bitch. The competency trial was due process enough. Caught in the act, instant execution.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 12, 2026 06:39 PM (5P5DO)

You, my dear, are a vengeful sweetypie.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 12, 2026 06:49 PM (ExV1e)

190 Howard Jones has more actually-good songs that continue to be relevant than Blockhead Springsteen, and I'm not joking, and I'll defend that position.

I'm not even taking a bold statement here. It's just obvious.

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:49 PM (1wjle)

191 Also pretty much all the E street Band guys are also left wing cunts.

Posted by: steevy at June 12, 2026 06:49 PM (YwEeS)

192 "Like the colorful "wraps" gang members put on their cars? Not my style, ese.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere"

Wrap it to make it look an old Coke machine.

Posted by: fd at June 12, 2026 06:49 PM (vFG9F)

193 Best Springsteen song isn't even his. Jersey Girl is way better when done by Tom Waits.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 12, 2026

***
Bruce wrote "Fire," done by the Pointer Sisters, and "This Girl Is Mine" for Gary U.S. Bonds. As I say, he was (once) a good songwriter.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 06:49 PM (wzUl9)

194 I seem to recall it was a mix of cocaine and heroin. Could be wrong, as I was never a druggie and never hung out with people who were into more than booze and a little pot.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 06:47 PM (wzUl9)

Killed both Jim blushing and Chris Farley, iirc. And maybe the one gay guy from tropical thunder and that one mission impossible movie... Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 06:49 PM (zZu0s)

195 >>>I don't care if *he* understands it. If a mad dog is captured and we decide what to do with it, it doesn't matter if he understands.
Posted by: Oldcat
---

Judge says, whether you have knowledge that you are breaking the law has no bearing on the case.
Whether you broke the law or not is the only concern.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 12, 2026 06:49 PM (P4ocI)

196 Most everything the Black Crowes have done since 'A Southern Harmony and Musical Companion' has been less than mediocre.

Springsteen was always a hack writer and musician.

Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2026 06:49 PM (JIHG4)

197 He used speedball because fastball would not work in that situation.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 12, 2026 06:49 PM (XV/Pl)

198 140 Piper , you are a good person. I am a vengeful bitch. The competency trial was due process enough. Caught in the act, instant execution.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 12, 2026 06:39 PM (5P5DO)

I don’t know that I am a good person. But I do think there are really tough ethical questions out there that are hard to wrestle with - like if someone is so legitimately psychotic they truly do not understand right from wrong what do you do with that? The failings with this guy are so, so many. The judges who thought they were helping him by not holding him accountable as he got more and more psychotic, they should have to face music, too. They aren’t mental ill. They are just stupid.

Posted by: Piper at June 12, 2026 06:50 PM (OoFl2)

199 >>>176 Best Springsteen song isn't even his. Jersey Girl is way better when done by Tom Waits.

oh sweet Lord I despise that song

it's such a transparent Pussy Getting Song yet it sucks so hard

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:50 PM (1wjle)

200 140 Piper , you are a good person. I am a vengeful bitch. The competency trial was due process enough. Caught in the act, instant execution.
Posted by: Ben Had
---

Chicken Dinner.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 12, 2026 06:50 PM (P4ocI)

201 "You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you only want people to speak English."

Posted by: Duncanthrax

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:00 PM
I have a few words in ebonics, but I don't like futbol. Should I watch anyway? They're all cusswords if that helps.

Posted by: Eromero at June 12, 2026 06:50 PM (LHPAg)

202 John! Dammit I always get him mixed up with his Red Heat brother.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 06:50 PM (zZu0s)

203 He's a thickwitted New Jersey trash yokel that stupid rock critics, always on the lookout for the next Hero Philosopher Poet Guru Who Will Be Savior to the World -- of which rock has produced, so far, precisely zero -- gassed up into a sweaty-balled "genius."

Fuck him and his adulterous tax-dodging hypocrisy. He's a less-charismatic Carmine Ragusa from Laverne & Shirley.
====

I wish I had this cruelty in mind when that douchebag in the next chair in 8th grade Spanish was trying to convince me how "Bruce" was teh awesome.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 12, 2026 06:50 PM (RIvkX)

204 Iirc a lot of fellow musicians hate Chris Robinson. I remember the dude from Blues Traveler in particular hating him.
Posted by: steevy at June 12, 2026 06:47 PM (YwEeS)

Because of what I've seen of him, John Popper could be a moron.

Posted by: polynikes at June 12, 2026 06:51 PM (GseMx)

205 "what about Hungry Heart?"

I sing it :

"Everybody's got a smelly fart"

Posted by: fd at June 12, 2026 06:51 PM (vFG9F)

206 The best version of "Fire" is done by Robin Williams singing it in an Elmer Fudd voice.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Bay Area Stochastic Musicologist (and Housekeeper) at June 12, 2026 06:51 PM (kLJmv)

207 I seem to recall it was a mix of cocaine and heroin. Could be wrong, as I was never a druggie and never hung out with people who were into more than booze and a little pot.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 06:47 PM (wzUl9)

I think John Belushi died from this. I don't honestly know why people get to this point, but I remember reading about it. Granted, I could be wrong as that was a long time ago and too lazy and drinking gin to look it up. He was so funny on SNL and Animal House. Gone too soon and we are left with wankers in 2026 who are not funny In Hollyweird.

I do like a few stand up comics. Not that anyone cares or reads what I write so I'm having two gin and tonics because after the last six weeks I deserve them.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 12, 2026 06:51 PM (WONhk)

208 88-year-old Harvey Marcelin seems like the institutionalized convict who keeps committing crimes to go back to prison.

I agree though, he should've been executed decades ago.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 12, 2026 06:51 PM (6ydKt)

209 >>I don’t know that I am a good person. But I do think there are really tough ethical questions out there that are hard to wrestle with - like if someone is so legitimately psychotic they truly do not understand right from wrong what do you do with that?

You either institutionalize them or put them down, depending on whether or not they are also violent.

Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2026 06:51 PM (JIHG4)

210 113 Mete
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 06:35 PM (zZu0s)

Canik does make good pistols...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 12, 2026 06:51 PM (xcxpd)

211 His early stuff…1972-74, was good.that is all

Posted by: DanMan at June 12, 2026 06:52 PM (Jmtys)

212 " I can't stand his Santa Claus is Coming to Town either and people love that shit.
Posted by: steevy"

Oh man the only song that ever made me want to kill Santa.

Posted by: fd at June 12, 2026 06:52 PM (vFG9F)

213 Ben Had, your comment above reminded me of a story of a WhiteHouse relative Alice possibly Roosevelt? who was known for her sharp words. She had a pillow embroidered something like, if you're a mean bitch, come sit over here by me.

I'm with you. Sometimes I think I'll try to be better but then I think of the people I feel vindictive toward and I think . . . no.

Posted by: Wenda at June 12, 2026 06:52 PM (UIfeN)

214 >>it's such a transparent Pussy Getting Song yet it sucks so hard

Dave Matthews - Crash into Me

Guilty as Charged.

Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2026 06:53 PM (JIHG4)

215 I still think Hank Hill said it best.

Soccer was invented by French women to give themselves something to do while their husbands cooked dinner.

Posted by: polynikes at June 12, 2026 06:53 PM (GseMx)

216 The Speedball thing was just Springsteen, a guy who never played baseball or really understood it, trying to write a line that makes him SEEM to be really an aficionado. Like I said, he's a total phony.

Also, a lot people think he wrote "wrapped up like a douche". I hindsight maybe they were right all along.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 12, 2026 06:53 PM (l26NL)

217 I'll make a bold statement I've made before.....

'Prometheus' and 'Freddy Got Fingered' weren't all that bad.

After all the crap of Star Trek Wars and Dr. Who, it was kind of a refreshing change of pace. And I remember ace's review of 'Freddy' but the movie was 25 years ago and Hollywood has gotten SOOOOooo much worse.

It wasn't a laugh riot and it was pretty stupid, but no gays, blacks bitching about racism or identity politics. It was like Shakespeare. Well not quite...

And it was $25 million in today's dollars. How that got through...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 12, 2026 06:53 PM (Sco7b)

218 Pink Cadillac is a pretty good song. Reportedly Bette Miller wanted to buy it, but Springsteen recorded it himself instead.

Posted by: No Name Today at June 12, 2026 06:53 PM (8mulE)

219 209 >>I don’t know that I am a good person. But I do think there are really tough ethical questions out there that are hard to wrestle with - like if someone is so legitimately psychotic they truly do not understand right from wrong what do you do with that?

You either institutionalize them or put them down, depending on whether or not they are also violent.
Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2026 06:51 PM (JIHG4)

Garrett Johnson is right.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 12, 2026 06:53 PM (xcxpd)

220 But, Ben Had, I also like soccer so maybe I am the problem! lol.

Posted by: Piper at June 12, 2026 06:54 PM (Wmg4n)

221 "You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you've ever voted against immigration."

"You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you've ever spoken out against DEI."

"You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you only want people to speak English."

Posted by: Duncanthrax

So, if'n yer not Woke and Gay, no World Cup for you?

I find your terms acceptable.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 12, 2026 06:54 PM (mP0Kj)

222 The lines in "I'm On Fire":

"Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull
And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my skull.
At night, I wake up with the sheets soakin' wet
And a freight train runnin' through the middle of my head --"

. . . are pretty evocative. Since I can't understand or remember any of the remaining lyrics, I can hardly say whether it's a good song overall or no.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 06:54 PM (wzUl9)

223 Don't forget Bruce brought us Blinded by the Light.

Posted by: pawn at June 12, 2026 06:54 PM (+rSJz)

224 Killed both Jim blushing and Chris Farley, iirc. And maybe the one gay guy from tropical thunder and that one mission impossible movie... Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 06:49 PM (zZu0s)

Phillip was not a homosexual, although you would never know it. So soft and flabby and oh...

Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at June 12, 2026 06:54 PM (z20w/)

225 Soccer is so homo. Apparently the US is playing a pair of gays tonight.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 12, 2026 06:55 PM (n5tGW)

226 222 The lines in "I'm On Fire":

"Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull
And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my skull.
At night, I wake up with the sheets soakin' wet
And a freight train runnin' through the middle of my head --"

. . . are pretty evocative. Since I can't understand or remember any of the remaining lyrics, I can hardly say whether it's a good song overall or no.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 06:54 PM (wzUl9)

"Hey little girl, is your Daddy home? Did he go away and leave you all alone?" Hits...differently now.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 12, 2026 06:55 PM (xcxpd)

227 The "speedball by you" line in Glory Days shows you how much of a poseur Springsteen really is. No baseball fan ever used the term "speedball" for a fast ball. Heater , gas , cheese but never "speedball".
Liked Springsteen's early stuff, saw him twice. He's become such a douche any interest I had in him is gone.
The Band kills his Atlantic City

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 12, 2026 06:55 PM (IiEl1)

228 Edgy and dull? Mostly just dull.

Posted by: fd at June 12, 2026 06:55 PM (vFG9F)

229 most annoying Pussy Getting Song (except for Jersey Girl) -- "Hey There Delilah"

https://youtu.be/h_m-BjrxmgI?si=t5t8l6U8KJoTdLQX

Like, glam metal acts have a lot of Pussy Getting Songs, but they're upfront about it. They're honest.

They don't pull this "Gee I'm such a nice guy, I'm just in love with a Jersey Girl named Delilah" act.

I really hate that. These soft, faggy songs that are TRANSPARENTLY cynical plays to get groupies to fuck them.

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:56 PM (1wjle)

230 You either institutionalize them or put them down, depending on whether or not they are also violent.
Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2026 06:51 PM (JIHG4)

Most modern people no longer believe in actual evil, so they call it crazy.

Now, not saying there is not crazy, but, where is the line... because there is Evil out there.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 12, 2026 06:56 PM (mP0Kj)

231
How about that, I think I can bring over my willowed comment from the last thread:

----------------

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel ripped Elon Musk as a “wealthy weirdo” --

----------------

Elon should reply:

Check, and check.

------------------

and accused the newly minted trillionaire of “stealing from us” as the businessman launched a historic IPO.

During his monologue Thursday, “The Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host criticized Musk while raising concerns about SpaceX’s stock market presence potentially being “very risky for retirement accounts.”

Posted by: beckster

===============

Elon should ask him, "Did your hedge fund manager get an allotment, or are you waiting until the price goes down 35% before you buy?"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 12, 2026 06:56 PM (n7rxJ)

232 So happy together!

Posted by: The Turtles at June 12, 2026 06:57 PM (vFG9F)

233 "I'm so sensitive
especially behind the ridge of my glans
I'm very sensitive
I really want to hear about your dreams
and your astrological fate
can you put your finger in my bum
it really cranks me up"

Posted by: ace's pussy getting song at June 12, 2026 06:57 PM (1wjle)

234 I'm a very old man so I know wag = wise ass guy

Posted by: Pascal at June 12, 2026 06:57 PM (XXncT)

235 Vanilla Ice talk radio interview by Clay and Buck show. Mr Ice, or Rob, said it was an honor to play at the 250 celebration and said sic 'musicians should stay in their lane and not be political, I don't even vote. I've been to parties at MarA Largo and Trump is a great host, I would have been thrilled to play basketball with Obama'

I wish all musicians and entertainers would take that stance (and I'm more lenient, they can vote, they can donate to Pols or PACs they like). But shut the hell up about politics when you are being PAID, and paid damn well, to entertain people and just do what you are being paid to do.

Posted by: PaleRider at June 12, 2026 06:58 PM (PV+Zw)

236 227 The "speedball by you" line in Glory Days shows you how much of a poseur Springsteen really is. No baseball fan ever used the term "speedball" for a fast ball. Heater , gas , cheese but never "speedball".
Liked Springsteen's early stuff, saw him twice. He's become such a douche any interest I had in him is gone.
The Band kills his Atlantic City
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 12, 2026 06:55 PM (IiEl1)

Getting the speedball by ya...

Speedball... drug term for a combination of Cocaine and Heroine... make ya look like a fool? yeah...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 12, 2026 06:58 PM (mP0Kj)

237 43 I wouldn't go near the guy in the wheelchair (let alone have him as a *roommate*!) just based on his face and expression.

We are wired to sheer away from things which are abnormal and signal danger. If you insist on ignoring your wiring, well, so be it, but don't whine "Somebody should have told me!!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 06:20 PM (wzUl9)

A lot of people appear to have amygdala problems. Especially homosexuals and those on anti-depressants, it's like they lack the normal, healthy 'disgust' and 'fear' reactions. When you combine that with decades of cultural programming to "don't be prejudiced," it's a deadly combination.

That's what the mantra of "physiognomy is real" is meant to counteract. I'm literally trying to save people's lives here.

I'm making a bold statement, and I can't bring myself to say it in a nonsense way. I'm not standing ready to transcribe your statement in boldface, and I'm not going say it like that.

Posted by: SciVo at June 12, 2026 06:59 PM (Sy6m/)

238 One of the best songs that Springsteen was involved in he didn't finish writing. He gave Because the Night to Patti Smith after he couldn't work it out

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 12, 2026 06:59 PM (IiEl1)

239
Bruce wrote "Fire," done by the Pointer Sisters, and "This Girl Is Mine" for Gary U.S. Bonds. As I say, he was (once) a good songwriter.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 06:49 PM (wzUl9)

Blinded by the light and Because the Night by Patti Smith.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 12, 2026 06:59 PM (Y6Hh/)

240 >>Like, glam metal acts have a lot of Pussy Getting Songs, but they're upfront about it. They're honest.

Waits wrote Jersey Girl for his wife who was in fact a Jersey girl. He already got it.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 12, 2026 06:59 PM (viF8m)

241 Good P-Getting Song from AC/DC:

Let Me Put My Love Into You.

No bullshit, no con.

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:59 PM (1wjle)

242 "I'm so sensitive
especially behind the ridge of my glans
I'm very sensitive
I really want to hear about your dreams
and your astrological fate
can you put your finger in my bum
it really cranks me up"
Posted by: ace's pussy getting song at June 12, 2026 06:57 PM (1wjle)

Damn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 06:59 PM (zZu0s)

243 "Hey little girl, is your Daddy home? Did he go away and leave you all alone?" Hits...differently now.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 12, 2026

***
I'd happily forgotten that line. At the time the song came out I assumed "little girl" was just playful teasing and "Daddy" was her husband/boyfriend, but who knows nowadays.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 07:00 PM (wzUl9)

244 >>>Waits wrote Jersey Girl for his wife who was in fact a Jersey girl. He already got it.

lol, sure

didn't he cheat on his first wife? or all of them, really?

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 07:00 PM (1wjle)

245 ...confirming your use of wag was on target.

Posted by: Pascal at June 12, 2026 07:00 PM (XXncT)

246 Heroin. Not female heroes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 07:00 PM (zZu0s)

247 148 Contemplating a crime
Posted by: Dark L at June 12, 2026 06:36 PM (DZ9Lv)

A Righteous earworm:

https://youtu.be/Ak_MTXQALa0

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes,

Nice!
Posted by: Dark L at June 12, 2026 06:41 PM (DZ9Lv)
Winner! Give the man a cigar.

Posted by: Eromero at June 12, 2026 07:01 PM (LHPAg)

248 I wish all musicians and entertainers would take that stance
Posted by: PaleRider

"Republicans buy sneakers, too."

Posted by: Michael Jordan at June 12, 2026 07:01 PM (VHUov)

249 Why did you use a photo of Taylor Lorenz in that "trans" wheelchair story?

Posted by: Orson at June 12, 2026 07:01 PM (dIske)

250 Wait, 2026-1971=55…wow, how old is Bruce?

Posted by: DanMan at June 12, 2026 07:01 PM (Jmtys)

251 @241 Ace, the next step Giving the Dog a Bone

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 12, 2026 07:01 PM (IiEl1)

252 115 In fairness, the Black Crowes did have a couple of other hits besides the Otis Redding cover (the original of which I heard for the first time a few weeks ago and thought an inferior version).

Posted by: logorof at June 12, 2026 06:35 PM (jo6FO)

She Talks To Angels wasn't too bad and was about as popular as Hot To Handle.

I honestly can't remember anything else off of that CD, "Amorica" which had the close-up of the bikini with the chick's bush flowing out of it (came off of a 1976 Bicentennial cover of Hustler).

They also had the censored version of that CD cover which was all black.

The cover is the most memorable thing about the album.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 12, 2026 07:01 PM (6ydKt)

253 " I can't stand his Santa Claus is Coming to Town either and people love that shit.
Posted by: steevy"

Oh man the only song that ever made me want to kill Santa.
Posted by: fd at June 12, 2026 06:52 PM (vFG9F)

I still have PTS from when I worked at Walmart during the holiday season.

I looked at a co-worker and said "kill me now." he laughed, and then said, "No, me first."

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Mel Cooley at June 12, 2026 07:02 PM (0aYVJ)

254 Piper, you are just fine. Enjoy the soccer. I think it's a great place for little kids to start learning sportsmanship.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 12, 2026 07:02 PM (5P5DO)

255 One street at a time
One block at a time
One village at a time
One county at a time
One county at a time

This is how you lose your culture.. And your nation.
Europe is waking up...I pray it isn't too late.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 12, 2026 07:02 PM (2WIwB)

256 @231

>> Elon should ask him, "Did your hedge fund manager get an allotment, or are you waiting until the price goes down 35% before you buy?"

The whole affecting retirement funds attack line was cooked up by that stupid c*** Elizabeth Warren.

It proves she knows nothing about how investing and the markets work.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 12, 2026 07:02 PM (XV/Pl)

257 Edgy and dull? Mostly just dull.
Posted by: fd at June 12, 2026

***
That is sort of an oxymoron. A knife could have an edge that's dull, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 07:02 PM (wzUl9)

258 >>>251 @241 Ace, the next step Giving the Dog a Bone

you mean Do You Really Want to Taste It?

Now that's honesty.

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 07:02 PM (1wjle)

259 Wait, 2026-1971=55…wow, how old is Bruce?
Posted by: DanMan

He's 75. Maybe 76 now.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 12, 2026 07:02 PM (l26NL)

260 The cover is the most memorable thing about the album.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 12, 2026 07:01 PM (6ydKt)

Dammit, people keep mentioning song names of really shitty, overplayed songs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 07:02 PM (zZu0s)

261 >>didn't he cheat on his first wife? or all of them, really?

Far as I know he's only been married to once, to Kathleen Brennan. Still is.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 12, 2026 07:03 PM (viF8m)

262 I live down the Shore and the streets in my town are marked with posts. I live very close to the corner of 10th Ave. and E Street which is the legitimate location of the E Street Band and the song 10th Avenue Freeze out. Years ago a couple of my kids took a picture of that post and sold them on ebay to idiot Springsteen vans for a couple of bucks.

Fast forward to today...the town has put up a five-foot guitar and a plaque at that location and there are actually tourist buses that stop there.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at June 12, 2026 07:03 PM (3ImbR)

263 Always assume the darkest possibility in lyrics

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2026 07:03 PM (Ia/+0)

264 Shit.
One county at a time
One country...

Fat fingers...

Posted by: Diogenes at June 12, 2026 07:03 PM (2WIwB)

265 Because, this...THIS is insulting.

sorry. I was taking a bold statement.
Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 06:44 PM (1wjle)

By 'big rock cats' I thought you were referring to mountain lions or Maine coons.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I thought he was talking about divorced cougars with diamonds.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2026 07:03 PM (+gsxO)

266 Not anti immigrant - use pro citizen.

Posted by: InZona at June 12, 2026 07:04 PM (o8srJ)

267 >>>Far as I know he's only been married to once, to Kathleen Brennan. Still is.

dude, he married that model or actress, Julianna something, and then immediately began cheating with his bandmate Patty Scialfa. He did it more or less openly on stage, serenading her, while he was still married to the other one.

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 07:04 PM (1wjle)

268 Edgy and dull? Mostly just dull.
Posted by: fd at June 12, 2026

***
That is sort of an oxymoron. A knife could have an edge that's dull, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 07:02 PM (wzUl9)

CAUSE ITLL HURT MORE YOU NIT!

Posted by: Sheriff of Nottingham at June 12, 2026 07:04 PM (zZu0s)

269 Piper, you are just fine. Enjoy the soccer. I think it's a great place for little kids to start learning sportsmanship.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 12, 2026 07:02 PM (5P5DO)

As a kids sport, soccer offers three benefits: sportsmanship, running, and acting.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 12, 2026 07:04 PM (qx7Zg)

270 @EndWokeness
1h
This week in the UK…

- Attempted beheading in Belfast
- Double stabbing attack in Southall
- Triple stabbing at school in Blackley
- Girl stabbed while walking in Burnley

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 12, 2026 07:05 PM (P4ocI)

271 I thought he was talking about divorced cougars with diamonds.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2026 07:03 PM (+gsxO)

Hah! Nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 07:05 PM (zZu0s)

272 >>>Far as I know he's only been married to once, to Kathleen Brennan. Still is.

i'm talking about Blockhead Bruce Springsteen, who are you talking about?

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 07:05 PM (1wjle)

273 19 I saw video of the Chris Robinson thing. A LOT of people walked out.

I think they got kicked off the tour because pretty much all their concerts are in the South.

Posted by: the dandy at June 12, 2026 07:05 PM (8l8nW)

274 >>dude, he married that model or actress, Julianna something, and then immediately began cheating with his bandmate Patty Scialfa. He did it more or less openly on stage, serenading her, while he was still married to the other one.

You do know Tom Waits is a whole different person from Bruce Springsteen, right?

Tom Waits wrote Jersey Girl. Springsteen covered it.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 12, 2026 07:06 PM (viF8m)

275 "Glory Days" ewwwww. Duh duh DUH duh, duh duh DUH duh for 4 minutes.

Posted by: Azjaeger at June 12, 2026 07:06 PM (3/XaG)

276 The worst fate i could give the left is the world they wish for.

Unfortunately, that world is built upon the murder of 100 million already and will kill hundreds of millions more.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 12, 2026 07:06 PM (73/SM)

277 KingBobIIV
4h
In one week: Italy, Belfast, France - throats slit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 12, 2026 07:06 PM (P4ocI)

278 241 Good P-Getting Song from AC/DC:

Let Me Put My Love Into You.

No bullshit, no con.
Posted by: ace
..............................
Sink the Pink

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at June 12, 2026 07:06 PM (T/qft)

279 Dammit, people keep mentioning song names of really shitty, overplayed songs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 07:02 PM (zZu0s)

I even got the title wrong...

Baby, here I am, I'm the man on the scene
I can give you what you want, but you gotta come home with me
I've got some good old lovin', and I got some more in store
When I get through throwin' it on you, you got to come back for more

Boys and things that come by the dozen
That ain't nothin' but drugstore lovin'
Hey little thing, let me light your candle
'Cause, mama, I'm so hard to handle now
Yes sir, I'm

:p

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 12, 2026 07:06 PM (6ydKt)

280 i'm talking about Blockhead Bruce Springsteen, who are you talking about?
Posted by: ace

I agree with Ace on this point. He married a starlet but it didn't last long.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 12, 2026 07:06 PM (l26NL)

281 @267 Julianna Phillips disappeared real quickly. Must have gotten a good divorce settlement from the Boss

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 12, 2026 07:07 PM (IiEl1)

282 Springsteen sings like a sick, braying mule.

Posted by: wth at June 12, 2026 07:07 PM (UjdFS)

283 261 >>didn't he cheat on his first wife? or all of them, really?

Far as I know he's only been married to once, to Kathleen Brennan. Still is.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 12, 2026 07:03 PM (viF8m)

He was involved with Rickie Lee Jones before he got married. She was on the back cover of the album "Blue Valentine."

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Bay Area Stochastic Musicologist (and Housekeeper) at June 12, 2026 07:07 PM (kLJmv)

284 @EndWokeness
1h
This week in the UK…

- Attempted beheading in Belfast
- Double stabbing attack in Southall
- Triple stabbing at school in Blackley
- Girl stabbed while walking in Burnley

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 12, 2026 07:05 PM (P4ocI)

Far right wing fascists are obviously out of control. -- Dr. What

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 12, 2026 07:07 PM (ExV1e)

285 >>>Tom Waits wrote Jersey Girl. Springsteen covered it.

I assume he wrote it because it's so terrible.

It's still a Pussy Getting Song when sung by Springsteen. He's singing it to appeal to the Groupies right in front of him at the time, who were Jersey groupies.

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 07:07 PM (1wjle)

286 Tom Waits has a better singing voice than Bruce Springsteen.

*drops mic*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 07:07 PM (zZu0s)

287 There's your bold statement.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 07:08 PM (zZu0s)

288 I've just been told the guitar is 8 feet tall. Here's a picture:

https://tinyurl.com/3z9tahff

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at June 12, 2026 07:08 PM (3ImbR)

289 Miami Steve Van Zandt the guitarist in the E Street Band is as big a leftist douchebag as Bruce. His radio show ain't half bad though

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 12, 2026 07:08 PM (IiEl1)

290 Do you need to woo the groupies if you are the actual lead of the act?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 07:09 PM (zZu0s)

291 Springsteen plays guitar almost as good as "The Edge".

Posted by: wth at June 12, 2026 07:09 PM (UjdFS)

292 Wait, 2026-1971=55…wow, how old is Bruce?
Posted by: DanMan
He's 75. Maybe 76 now.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 12, 2026 07:02 PM (l26NL)

The Modern Celebrity cannot just grow old and retire and stop bothering people.

Look at David Lee Roth. Scaring people at 71. Or Madonna. Just stop already.

Posted by: Metamucil is Calling at June 12, 2026 07:09 PM (z20w/)

293 How do you see the literal End of Civilization going?"

*looks around*

Pretty much like it is...

Posted by: man at June 12, 2026 07:09 PM (XuXeR)

294 Bruce is now an old man screaming at the sky. Dang I’m getting old. But not as old as him so there’s that.

Posted by: DanMan at June 12, 2026 07:10 PM (Jmtys)

295 i had to get this soft yokel moron crap out of my head so I put on Cinderella's Gypsy Road

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 07:10 PM (1wjle)

296 it's "Hard To Handle"

Posted by: Don Black at June 12, 2026 07:10 PM (ZxPkt)

297 For those wondering (and you know who you are), California Democrats defined the political beliefs you must hold to watch the World Cup in a series of X posts:
=

Sports is so unifying.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 12, 2026 07:10 PM (RIvkX)

298 Often think anyone who murders someone they probably are mentally illness, especially if they are murdering someone they never met before.
That has no bearing on their crime to me, I still wish death penalty was in force for murder.

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2026 07:10 PM (Ia/+0)

299
Mississippi is almost 40% black too, Paul.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 12, 2026 07:10 PM (rqNGS)

300 I agree with Ace on this point. He married a starlet but it didn't last long.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 12, 2026 07:06 PM (l26NL)

Julianne Phillips, she was the cutie in Fletch Lives. We seen her panties.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Mel Cooley at June 12, 2026 07:10 PM (0aYVJ)

301 >>>297 it's "Hard To Handle"

yes I introduced that error to the thread. Whoops.

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 07:10 PM (1wjle)

302 There are rumors that Bruce Willis has died but I think it’s bullshit. More specifically, it seems to arise from a poorly written headline that he "passed on" a role.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 12, 2026 07:10 PM (ndZc7)

303 I don't post here much, but I will tell this story after Ace's epic rant.

After 9/11, in the summer of 2002 before his tour that year, he arranged to use the Fort Monmouth NJ Army base post theater to rehearse before the start of the tour. His house was in an upscale neighborhood a short distance away, and the security of the post would insure that they could do it in private, as the post at the time was closed and guarded by an National Guard infantry unit.

The deal was that he could have the use of the theater, and in return, he would let a small number of soldiers and family members who lived on the post sit in on the last one.

Needless to say he got a week of rehearsal time, but at the end, took off before the last one, reneging on the deal - leaving a bunch of disappointed soldiers and kids.

He would go on to make a quarter billion dollars in revenue on that tour. Cashing in on 9/11.

I have never forgotten what he did.

There is a special place in hell for him.

Posted by: Viso Latte at June 12, 2026 07:11 PM (W28X+)

304 When you forget to use words.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ryaoQzkOgw0

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 12, 2026 07:11 PM (qx7Zg)

305 @visegrad24
17m
The Sudanese asylum seeker who nearly beheaded a local man in Belfast worked as a police officer in Sudan & had studied in Saudi Arabia.

2 of his brothers have also migrated to the UK

Policeman who had studied in Saudi? Sounds like the Muslim Brotherhood

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 12, 2026 07:11 PM (P4ocI)

306 No math troll.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 12, 2026 07:11 PM (RIvkX)

307 Bruce is now an old man screaming at the sky.

-
With an onion tied to his belt.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 12, 2026 07:12 PM (ndZc7)

308 >>>There is a special place in hell for him.

he is, in the British sense, a c**t.

And also, in the American sense.

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 07:12 PM (1wjle)

309 Somebody mentioned Tom Petty above and obviously Petty > Springsteen.

And I've never really heard of Petty's politics, although I'm sure he was a lib.

Randomly picks...
Don't Come Around here No More
https://youtu.be/h0JvF9vpqx8

(cool video for the time)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 12, 2026 07:13 PM (6ydKt)

310 Posted by: Viso Latte at June 12, 2026 07:11 PM (W28X+)

What a dick.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 07:14 PM (zZu0s)

311 The worst fate i could give the left is the world they wish for.

To truly be the Nazis they claim we are.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2026 07:14 PM (+gsxO)

312 See a headline Final words on a US -Iran peace agreement have been agreed on
Which Iran will break in 24 hours after signed

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2026 07:14 PM (Ia/+0)

313 >>.Don't Come Around here No More

i like that one. And Jamming Me, and American Girl. And I guess Don't Go Draggin My Heart Around.

not a general fan but he did put out some good songs and also didn't seem to be a total c-word

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 07:14 PM (1wjle)

314 When it comes to Bruce I have a memorandum of understanding.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 12, 2026 07:14 PM (Cqx++)

315 Scaring people at 71. Or Madonna"

Do. Not. Googles a recent pic. You've been warned.

Posted by: man at June 12, 2026 07:14 PM (XuXeR)

316 290 Do you need to woo the groupies if you are the actual lead of the act?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 07:09 PM (zZu0s)

You do when you look like gomer pyle fucked a skunk and they raised their retard stinkbaby on cigarette butts and Red Man.

Posted by: The Paolo at June 12, 2026 07:15 PM (Ot/FD)

317 There is a special place in hell for him.
Posted by: Viso Latte at June 12, 2026 07:11 PM (W28X+)
~~~~~

That is a very representative story of who he is.
Piece of crap.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at June 12, 2026 07:15 PM (3ImbR)

318 Santa Claus is comin to town
And he wants his fuckin money.

The Real Jersey Version

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at June 12, 2026 07:15 PM (wBaIH)

319 Petty is an odd one. His voice starts to grate on me. Has a particular whine i don't like. Some songs are fine and I like them, just can't listen to them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 07:15 PM (zZu0s)

320 You do when you look like gomer pyle fucked a skunk and they raised their retard stinkbaby on cigarette butts and Red Man.
Posted by: The Paolo at June 12, 2026 07:15 PM (Ot/FD)

But it's like... buying the tiny bars of soap in hotels.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 07:16 PM (zZu0s)

321

Runnin' Down A Dream

https://youtu.be/Y1D3a5eDJIs

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 12, 2026 07:16 PM (Cqx++)

322 Petty has a kind of dylan whine which I don't love. I respect him for deciding he's going to be a rock and roll front man despite not really having the voice or look for it.

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 07:17 PM (1wjle)

323 The whole affecting retirement funds attack line was cooked up by that stupid c*** Elizabeth Warren.

It proves she knows nothing about how investing and the markets work.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 12, 2026 07:02 PM (XV/Pl)

My Son tried to convince me last night that my stock account was going to plumet because ALL stock funds are index funds...

Uh... no... I don't have a single index fund.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 12, 2026 07:17 PM (mP0Kj)

324 https://youtu.be/pdz5kCaCRFM?
si=7zqK_fKHbDPcJgnt

Pulling some bad earworms. Oddly, I still like this one even though they played the living fuck out of it back in the day.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 07:18 PM (zZu0s)

325 >>it's "Hard To Handle"

Otis my man!

A Pig Pen classic.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 12, 2026 07:18 PM (viF8m)

326 Swastika Schwastika.

Matthew Chapman
@fawfulfan
If you're unironically calling Graham Platner a Nazi, you're not a serious person.
He's a doofus who got drunk with his military unit overseas, they all got a tattoo, he later learned it was an obscure Nazi symbol and he stupidly kept it anyway because he thought it looked cool.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 12, 2026 07:18 PM (ndZc7)

327 Tom Petty had some great lyrics

My sister got lucky
Married a yuppie
took him all he was worth

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Mel Cooley at June 12, 2026 07:18 PM (0aYVJ)

328 Petty has a kind of dylan whine which I don't love. I respect him for deciding he's going to be a rock and roll front man despite not really having the voice or look for it.
Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 07:17 PM (1wjle)

His voice is better than Geddy Lee.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 07:19 PM (zZu0s)

329 >>it's "Hard To Handle"

And it is an Otis Redding Cover.

Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2026 07:19 PM (JIHG4)

330 i like that one. And Jamming Me, and American Girl. And I guess Don't Go Draggin My Heart Around.

not a general fan but he did put out some good songs and also didn't seem to be a total c-word

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 07:14 PM (1wjle)

Refugee, Freefallin', Learning To Fly, You Don't Know How It Feels.

He had a long career with a hit every few years for a long time.
And yes, he wasn't a prick.

Even manged to get himself into The Traveling Wilburys which was quite the supergroup for the late 80s.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 12, 2026 07:19 PM (6ydKt)

331 I have the movie "Ray" on in the background. That is music.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 12, 2026 07:19 PM (5P5DO)

332 Don't Do Me Like That is what I *meant* when I said "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" (which is mid)

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 07:20 PM (1wjle)

333 >>Petty has a kind of dylan whine which I don't love. I respect him for deciding he's going to be a rock and roll front man despite not really having the voice or look for it.

Up to Damn the Torpedoes, Petty and the Heartbreakers were great.

After that...no.

Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2026 07:20 PM (JIHG4)

334
not a general fan but he did put out some good songs and also didn't seem to be a total c-word
Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 07:14 PM (1wjle)

I like Breakdown. He had a lot of hits if I think about it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 12, 2026 07:20 PM (Y6Hh/)

335 That first Tom Petty LP was almost, but not quite, Punk.

Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2026 07:21 PM (JIHG4)

336 Matthew Chapman
@fawfulfan
If you're unironically calling Graham Platner a Nazi, you're not a serious person.
He's a doofus who got drunk with his military unit overseas, they all got a tattoo, he later learned it was an obscure Nazi symbol and he stupidly kept it anyway because he thought it looked cool.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 12, 2026 07:18 PM (ndZc7)

Does Matt think this is an endorsement for Platner as a Senator?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 12, 2026 07:21 PM (ExV1e)

337 Hero Philosopher Poet Guru Who Will Be Savior to the World --of which rock has produced, so far, precisely zero

Dude?
Posted by: David Cassidy

Dude!

Posted by: Bobby Sherman at June 12, 2026 07:21 PM (6VErX)

338 My sister got lucky
Married a yuppie
took him all he was worth
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Mel Cooley at June 12, 2026 07:18 PM (0aYVJ)

Now she's a swinger, dating a singer
I can't decide which is worse...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Bay Area Stochastic Musicologist (and Housekeeper) at June 12, 2026 07:21 PM (kLJmv)

339 Refugee, Freefallin', Learning To Fly, You Don't Know How It Feels.

He had a long career with a hit every few years for a long time.
And yes, he wasn't a prick.

Even manged to get himself into The Traveling Wilburys which was quite the supergroup for the late 80s.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
=======
He wasn't an asshole which is pretty common in that business. You forgot a duet with prime Stevie Nicks too.

Went pretty far with the talent that he had basically and outlived almost everyone else involved in Southern Rock. Niche of his own by the time he died.

Posted by: whig at June 12, 2026 07:23 PM (E4rtv)

340 Tom Petty blew chunks but he kept at it and willed himself to the top of the dung heap. Bad voice, skinny, ugly buck toothed bastard but he made it. Not bad for a Florida Hillbilly.

Of course he's dead now. Good riddance.

Posted by: Florida Hillbilly at June 12, 2026 07:23 PM (z20w/)

341 I had a chance to see Petty in LA at the Hollywood Bowl. Couldn't convince the spouse and offspring. I'll catch him later, I thought.

He died the next day. As Kid Rock might say, "Til you can't".

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 12, 2026 07:23 PM (l26NL)

342 Does Matt think this is an endorsement for Platner as a Senator?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 12, 2026 07:21 PM (ExV1e)

Pete Hegseth's Jerusalem Cross: Definitely Nazi Tho (tm)

Posted by: The Paolo at June 12, 2026 07:23 PM (Ot/FD)

343 What Petty did to MCA to get his Album rights back...that was definitely Punk.

Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2026 07:23 PM (JIHG4)

344 >>> 256 @231

>> Elon should ask him, "Did your hedge fund manager get an allotment, or are you waiting until the price goes down 35% before you buy?"

The whole affecting retirement funds attack line was cooked up by that stupid c*** Elizabeth Warren.

It proves she knows nothing about how investing and the markets work.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 12, 2026 07:02 PM (XV/Pl)

iirc most if not all 401k accounts don't have access to individual stocks or even ETFs. No restrictions for IRAs
to my knowledge other than what the broker has access to.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 12, 2026 07:23 PM (R+iUD)

345 >> Refugee, Freefallin', Learning To Fly, You Don't Know How It Feels.

This is a great list of Petty songs I absolutely fucking hate.

Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2026 07:24 PM (JIHG4)

346 I imagine if you gave DeNiro a guitar and had him sing Springsteen tunes you couldn't tell the difference. Two angry little cockjockeys railing at the milky way.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 12, 2026 07:24 PM (SRceu)

347 Tom Petty blew chunks but he kept at it and willed himself to the top of the dung heap. Bad voice, skinny, ugly buck toothed bastard but he made it. Not bad for a Florida Hillbilly.

Of course he's dead now. Good riddance.
Posted by: Florida Hillbilly at June 12, 2026 07:23 PM (z20w/)

To each their own. I rather like a lot of his songs. We can't all listen to Air Supply.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 12, 2026 07:24 PM (ExV1e)

348 it's "Hard To Handle"

And it is an Otis Redding Cover.
Posted by: garrett

As Ace (who would know) informed us, garrett's musical taste is indeed ecumenical.

Posted by: Miklos rests assured at June 12, 2026 07:24 PM (6VErX)

349 I like a fair amount of Springsteen. But I would not pay to see him live. Concerts are expensive. I'm paying for songs, not lectures.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 12, 2026 07:24 PM (oIVsY)

350 There is a particular kind of intellectual dishonesty that does not know it is dishonest.

It wraps itself in the language of compassion, hides its power hunger behind slogans of liberation, and mistakes its own cultural preferences for universal moral law. American progressivism, in its current form as embodied by the Democrat Party, has become a nearly perfect specimen of this condition.
_Stu Cvrk, American Greatness
--

No, Stu, they know what they are. They are greedy, selfish, lecherous tyrants.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 12, 2026 07:24 PM (P4ocI)

351 IMHO best Petty song "Crawling Back to You" off Wildflowers. Not a big hit but a real good song

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 12, 2026 07:24 PM (IiEl1)

352 He was involved with Rickie Lee Jones before he got married. She was on the back cover of the album "Blue Valentine."
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Bay Area Stochastic Musicologist (and Housekeeper) at June 12, 2026 07:07 PM (kLJmv)
Now Rickie Lee was a piece of work at one time. I ran into her in her prime. Literally. Ended up on the sidewalk on my ass on Bourbon Street.

Posted by: Eromero at June 12, 2026 07:25 PM (LHPAg)

353 >>> 328 Swastika Schwastika.

Matthew Chapman
@fawfulfan
If you're unironically calling Graham Platner a Nazi, you're not a serious person.
He's a doofus who got drunk with his military unit overseas, they all got a tattoo, he later learned it was an obscure Nazi symbol and he stupidly kept it anyway because he thought it looked cool.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 12, 2026 07:18 PM (ndZc7)

So with all the publicity he should easily be able to get his tattoo removal crowd-funded, right?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 12, 2026 07:25 PM (R+iUD)

354 337 That first Tom Petty LP was almost, but not quite, Punk.
Posted by: garrett
======
Great production values, brittle sound, good use of keyboards along guitar. His voice is unique if not particularly distinguished.

Then again, Bob Seger had a far superior voice to Bruce and never quite got the hoopla.

The best musicians, best bands, the best vocalists, or even the best songwriting often falls flat in the public eye that somehow prefers something worse.

Similar to acting careers and movies.

Posted by: whig at June 12, 2026 07:25 PM (E4rtv)

355 Sasha Stone's latest Substack will cheer everyone up. "Happy Birthday Mr. President" and the outrage over the UFC at the WH:

https://tinyurl.com/y875hpdt

Posted by: beckster at June 12, 2026 07:26 PM (kX27y)

356 Even the Losers is the only Petty song you actually need.

Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2026 07:26 PM (JIHG4)

357 >>>351 I like a fair amount of Springsteen. But I would not pay to see him live. Concerts are expensive. I'm paying for songs, not lectures.

do you like the retarded rhythm of Hungry Heart?

Music for Muppets.

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 07:26 PM (1wjle)

358 Does Matt think this is an endorsement for Platner as a Senator?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Pay no attention to the Swastika behind the curtain!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 12, 2026 07:26 PM (ndZc7)

359 i like that one. And Jamming Me, and American Girl. And I guess Don't Go Draggin My Heart Around.

............

Louisiana Rain

Posted by: Molly k. at June 12, 2026 07:27 PM (j/yko)

360 >>And it is an Otis Redding Cover.

And who else covered it?

Posted by: JackStraw at June 12, 2026 07:27 PM (viF8m)

361 >>Then again, Bob Seger had a far superior voice to Bruce

Feel Like a Number is a classic that far exceeds anything Springsteen ever produced.

Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2026 07:27 PM (JIHG4)

362 Interesting:

Tom Petty’s legal battles with MCA Records in the late 1970s and early 1980s fundamentally shifted industry standards for artist rights and album pricing.

1979 Contract Dispute: When Petty’s label, Shelter Records, was sold to MCA, he refused to be "bought and sold like a piece of meat" and withheld his third album, Damn the Torpedoes. Petty filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 1979 to halt lawsuits and void his unfavorable contract, which had cost him his publishing rights.
MCA relented, releasing him from the old deal and signing him to a new $3 million contract with a newly created subsidiary, Backstreet Records.

1981 Pricing Stand: Petty again confronted MCA over "superstar pricing," a policy that would have raised his fourth album, Hard Promises, from the standard $8.98 to $9.98.
Petty argued that artists must not price music out of reach for common fans, threatening to withhold the album or title it Eight Ninety-Eight. MCA reversed the decision, keeping the price at $8.98, a move that solidified Petty’s reputation as a defender of both artistic control and consumer affordability.

I did not know all of that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 12, 2026 07:27 PM (6ydKt)

363 No, Stu, they know what they are. They are greedy, selfish, lecherous tyrants.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 12, 2026 07:24 PM (P4ocI)

Terror, as an ideology with its capital T, is fundamentally a juvenile ideology. It's the solipsistic id of the child who can't comprehend Other People, and therefore can't even begin to understand Other People Having Power. It will say, so, and smash anything without guilt or conscience unless and until something bigger and stronger teaches it that it can't.

Posted by: The Paolo at June 12, 2026 07:27 PM (Ot/FD)

364 Or Madonna

Do. Not. Googles a recent pic. You've been warned.
Posted by: man

Just imagine that a Hellraiser Cenobite and a Gray Alien had a child. She looks like that, now.

Posted by: mikeski at June 12, 2026 07:28 PM (VHUov)

365 359 >>>351 I like a fair amount of Springsteen. But I would not pay to see him live. Concerts are expensive. I'm paying for songs, not lectures.

do you like the retarded rhythm of Hungry Heart?

Music for Muppets.
Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 07:26 PM (1wjle)

Anti-Muppet bigotry? In Pride Month? Fuck.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 12, 2026 07:28 PM (oIVsY)

366 Of course he's dead now. Good riddance.
Posted by: Florida Hillbilly at June 12, 2026 07:23 PM (z20w/)

Jeez. Did Petty fuck your girlfriend?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 12, 2026 07:28 PM (zZu0s)

367 Cafe up!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2026 07:28 PM (+gsxO)

368 >>And who else covered it?

The Dead.

Back when they were Pigpen's Backup Band.

Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2026 07:28 PM (JIHG4)

369 >>>Feel Like a Number is a classic that far exceeds anything Springsteen ever produced.

see this is the shit you say that makes me say "garrett likes just about every band from the classic rock era"

Posted by: ace at June 12, 2026 07:28 PM (1wjle)

370 Now Rickie Lee was a piece of work at one time. I ran into her in her prime. Literally. Ended up on the sidewalk on my ass on Bourbon Street.
Posted by: Eromero at June 12, 2026 07:25 PM (LHPAg)
-------------------

Her memoir was good -

"Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour."

Posted by: beckster at June 12, 2026 07:29 PM (kX27y)

371 345 What Petty did to MCA to get his Album rights back...that was definitely Punk.
Posted by: garrett

MCA at one time, was so mob connected that the execs looked the other way while the mob bootlegged lp copies of their own signed acts. Artists lost untold millions to genuine bootleg lps going out the back door in the 70's. They also used the cheapest piece of crap vinyl and cheaped out on album liner notes, memorabilia, etc.

In sum, MCA under Lew Wasserman was a piece of shit corporation.

Posted by: whig at June 12, 2026 07:29 PM (E4rtv)

372 Ha. Sorry, paolo. Walking around in your socks here, still.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2026 07:30 PM (Ot/FD)

373 $8.98, though.

I was paying $14.98, easy, for CDs in the late-80s and 90s.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 12, 2026 07:30 PM (6ydKt)

374 Free Speech

https://tinyurl.com/sseztxdp

No punishment, it's just an expression which must not be denied.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 12, 2026 07:30 PM (P4ocI)

375 @timburchett - 3h
This is not the America my father fought for.

City Council meeting in Hamtramck, MI
Hard to believe that this is America

https://tinyurl.com/yw4mj8f6
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 12, 2026 06:05 PM (P4ocI)

Having listened to the council meeting I would like the council members to speak English and to learn Robert’s Rules of Order, or whatever rules govern the meetings of the council.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 12, 2026 07:30 PM (ZVgZ4)

376 How does one pronounce Cvrk?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 12, 2026 07:31 PM (Cqx++)

377 >>see this is the shit you say that makes me say "garrett likes just about every band from the classic rock era"

Nah - Bob Seger has a pretty unique voicing talent. He essentially has a form of Turrets that is inherently musical.

I loathe most of the singles from a lot of popular bands...but I recognize the tunes that make them important in their time and place.

Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2026 07:32 PM (JIHG4)

378 Feel Like a Number is a classic that far exceeds anything Springsteen ever produced.
Posted by: garrett

Seger's Vietnam era Ballad of the Yellow Beret is hilarious. But Bob put in the time from the late 60's to finally breaking out with Live Bullet and then his masterpiece album--Night Moves. Not a bad song on Night Moves really.

Great concerts too.

Posted by: whig at June 12, 2026 07:32 PM (E4rtv)

379 378 How does one pronounce Cvrk?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 12, 2026 07:31 PM (Cqx++)

Literally like "Chink"

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 12, 2026 07:32 PM (6ydKt)

380 Post 376 arrest the man for indecent exposure and desecration of a gravesite.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 12, 2026 07:32 PM (ZVgZ4)

381 Bad eyesight.

I thought it was referring to Cenk Uygur.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 12, 2026 07:33 PM (6ydKt)

382 Hero Philosopher Poet Guru Who Will Be Savior to the World --of which rock has produced, so far, precisely zero

Dude?
Posted by: David Cassidy

Dude!
Posted by: Bobby Sherman at June 12, 2026 07:21 PM

Ahem.

Posted by: James Taylor at June 12, 2026 07:33 PM (0sNs1)

383 >>see this is the shit you say that makes me say "garrett likes just about every band from the classic rock era"

Also.

Wet Leg.
...
I rest my case.

Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2026 07:34 PM (JIHG4)

384 Come on Wet Leg does have the one good song.

I like it.

It has a good beat and you can dance to it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 12, 2026 07:35 PM (6ydKt)

385 Iron City Houserockers are also had some minor hits reminscent of Bob Seger and far more genuine than anything Bruce produced after his second album.

Have a Good Time but Get Out Alive is worth a good listen as probably their best.

Pittsburg PA band.

Posted by: whig at June 12, 2026 07:35 PM (E4rtv)

386 I have one Iron City LP in the racks. I agree. They definitely nail the genre.

Posted by: garrett at June 12, 2026 07:37 PM (JIHG4)

387 384 Come on Wet Leg does have the one good song.

I like it.

It has a good beat and you can dance to it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
=======
Eh. The Corrs are better looking and sing better.

Posted by: whig at June 12, 2026 07:38 PM (E4rtv)

388 Re Madonna’s current look, MM said it best in Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend: “We all lose our charms in the end”.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 12, 2026 07:38 PM (ZVgZ4)

389 Woman who lied about being a Cherokee indian, in order to get her job at Harvard Law School, is upset about Elon being the most successful African American in history
---

She has a rant against Musk and Trump but she is so disgusting (you can imagine) I'm not going to post it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 12, 2026 07:43 PM (P4ocI)

390 https://tinyurl.com/yw4mj8f6
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 12, 2026 06:05 PM (P4ocI)

Having listened to the council meeting I would like the council members to speak English and to learn Robert’s Rules of Order, or whatever rules govern the meetings of the council.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
---

Four of them are under indictment for election fraud.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 12, 2026 07:44 PM (P4ocI)

391
I was never a fan of Rickie Lee Jones, however

her last few albums have been song remakes of old classics and rock.

Always interesting, always well-sung albums and well-arranged albums.

So for those albums of RLJ, yeah, I'm a fan.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 12, 2026 07:47 PM (iJfKG)

392 I never liked Springsteen. I know he was supposed to be the next Dylan , but he never was a Dylan

Posted by: Avi at June 12, 2026 07:57 PM (ieodf)

393 From a catalog chock-full of shitty music, "I’m Goin’ Down" has to be Springsteen's worst.

Do not play it, for it will be stuck in your head all weekend.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at June 12, 2026 07:58 PM (pE12i)

394 Anyone want to reflect on the possibility that Spencer Pratt would have had a better chance of success if he had just decapitated Karen Bass on the debate stage and declared himself Warlord of Los Angeles?

Posted by: Philip Nolan at June 12, 2026 07:59 PM (1kQia)

395 If you're unironically calling Graham Platner a Nazi, you're not a serious person.
He's a doofus who got drunk with his military unit overseas, they all got a tattoo, he later learned it was an obscure Nazi symbol and he stupidly kept it anyway because he thought it looked cool.

Obscure? Really? It's been in use since Fredrick the Great; it was a recognizable symbol for Not See Germany; they don't give that one out by accident. You want a pirate skull and crossbones, they have a ton of that sh*t hanging on the wall; you have to to ask for that one by name because it was worn by bloody concentration camp guards. Don't even try that just a drunken tattoo bullsh*t. Drunken tattoos are some chick's name you don't even remember or a Betty Boop or some other cartoon sh*t. You get a totenkopf because you either a. asked for it or b. walked into Joe's Not See Biker Tattoo Parlor and asked for it.
Stupid r*tard never called his his pirate tattoo; never called his jolly roger while he was getting a jolly rogering in the toilet shack; no, he called it a 'my totenkopf' that's the name of the godd*mn unit so he knew exactly what the f**k it was. JFC i'm sick of this.

Posted by: Nelly at June 12, 2026 08:00 PM (6+ehB)

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52 If I want to listen to an impression of Bob Dylan I'll listen to Tom Petty, not Bruce, thank you very much.
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at June 12, 2026 06:22 PM (zdYK9)

YES!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Avi at June 12, 2026 08:09 PM (ieodf)

397 Springsteen always sounds like he's taking a shit when he "sings."

Posted by: Biergood at June 12, 2026 08:13 PM (PwgSL)

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